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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Seigneur, j'ai peur ... Mon âme en moi...
Language: French (Français) 
[Seigneur, j'ai peur]1 ... [ Mon âme en moi tressaille toute.
Je vois, je sens qu'il faut vous aimer. Mais comment
Moi, ceci, me ferais-je, ô mon Dieu, votre amant,
Ô Justice que la vertu des bons redoute?

Oui, comment? Car voici que s'ébranle la voûte
Où mon coeur creusait son ensevelissement
Et que je sens fluer à moi le firmament,
Et je vous dis : de vous à moi quelle est la route?

Tendez-moi votre main, que je puisse lever
Cette chair accroupie et cet esprit malade.
Mais recevoir jamais la céleste accolade,

Est-ce possible? Un jour, pouvoir la retrouver
Dans votre sein, sur votre coeur qui fut le nôtre,
La place où reposa la tête de l'apôtre?]2

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•   C. Tournemire 

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1 Tournemire: "J'ai peur Seigneur"
2 omitted by Tournemire.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Sagesse, in Sagesse II, in 4. Mon Dieu m'a dit, no. 6, 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 Charles Tournemire (1870 - 1939), "Seigneur, j'ai peur ... Mon âme en moi tressaille toute", op. 34 no. 6, published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Sagesse, no. 6, Lyon, Janin Frères [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 119

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