L'échelonnement des haies
Moutonne à l'infini, mer
Claire dans le brouillard clair,
Qui [sent]1 bon les jeunes baies.

Des arbres et des moulins
Sont légers sur le vert tendre,
Où vient s'ébattre et s'étendre
L'agilité des poulains.

Dans ce vague d'un Dimanche,
Voici se jouer aussi
De grandes brebis,
Aussi douces que leur laine blanche.

Tout à l'heure déferlait
L'onde roulée en volutes,
De cloches comme des flûtes
Dans le ciel comme du lait.

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¹ Philippart-Gonzalez: "a envoyé"

Text Authorship:

• by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, written 1875?, appears in Sagesse, in Sagesse III, no. 13, first published 1880 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Georges Boeuf (b. 1937), "L'échelonnement des haies", op. 108 (2014) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Raymond Bonheur (1861 - 1939), "L'échelonnement des haies" [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Verlaine (de Sagesse) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "Paysage vert", 1893, published 1914, first performed 1902 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "L'échelonnement des haies", L. 85/(81) no. 3 (1891), published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Fromont [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "L'échelonnement des haies ", op. 2 (Trois poèmes) no. 1 (1914) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gabriel Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "L'échelonnement des haies", 1909, published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Sagesse, no. 3, Paris, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pierre Hermant (1869 - 1928), "L'échelonnement des haies", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from Sagesse, no. 11, Paris, Énoch [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jeanne Minsmer (1887 - 1957), "L'échelonnement des haies", published [1916] [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. E. Demets [sung text not yet checked]
• by Renée Philippart-Gonzalez (1905 - 1993), "Paysage", 1938 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932), "Dimanches d'avril", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies sur des poésies de Paul Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Durand [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Peter Low) , "Row upon row of hedges", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Christiane Garoux

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 75