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by Jean de la Vingtrie

Ce que disent les cloches
Language: French (Français) 
Les cloches tintent dans l'air triste
Leurs longs appels à Dieu,
Et leur voix dans mon coeur persiste
Comme un ancien aveu.

Elles ont la douceur navrante
De tout ce qui s'en va;
Elles disent la vaine attente
Des choses qu'on rêva...

Les cloches tintent dans l'air triste...

Elles ont la voix désolée
Des souvenirs heureux,
Des chants d'oiseaux dans une alée
Ou l'on venait à deux.

Les cloches tintent dans l'air triste...

O soeurs des espérances mortes,
Des grands bonheurs finis,
De l'herbe haute au seuil des portes,
Des couples désunis...

Les cloches tintent dans l'air triste... triste...

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean de la Vingtrie  [author's text not yet checked 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 Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Ce que disent les cloches", 1900, published 1900 [voice and piano], Éd. Heugel [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 19
Word count: 99

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