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by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)

Voici l'orme qui balance
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Voici l'orme qui balance
Son ombre sur le sentier:
Voici le jeune églantier,
Le bois où dort le silence.
Le banc de pierre où le soir
Nous aimions à nous asseoir.

Voici la voûte embaumée
D'ébéniers et de lilas,
Où, lorsque nous étions las,
Ensemble, [ô ma]1 bien aimée!
Sous des guirlandes de fleurs,
Nous laissions fuir les chaleurs.

Voici le marais que ride
Le saut du poisson d'argent;
Dont la grenouille en nageant
Trouble le miroir humide;
Comme autrefois, les roseaux
Baignent leurs pieds dans ses eaux.

Comme autrefois, la pervenche,
Sur le velours vert des prés
Par le printemps diaprés,
Aux baisers du soleil penche
À moitié rempli de miel
Son calice bleu de ciel.

Comme autrefois, l'hirondelle
Rase en passant les donjons,
Et le cygne dans les joncs
Se joue et lustre son aile;
L'air est pur, le gazon doux ...
Rien n'a donc changé que vous.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Hahn 

R. Hahn sets stanzas 1-2, 5 (lines 5-6)

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Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "Infidélité", appears in Premières Poésies -- 1830-1832 [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 Marcel Bernard (1926 - 2000), "Infidélité", published 1952 [ voice and piano ], Longchamp: Editions Europart-Music [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "Infidélité", 1870-79?, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 1, no. 14, Éd. Girod [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Infidélité", 1891, published 1893, stanzas 1-2,5 (lines 5-6) [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies - 1er volume, no. 10, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Promenade" [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, vol. 2, no. 1, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Paul Paray (1886 - 1979), "Infidélité", published 1912, orchestrated 1944 [ soprano and piano ], from Trois mélodies de P. Paray sur des poésies de Th. Gautier, no. 1, Éd. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Cemal Resit Rey (1904 - 1985), "Infidélité" [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. E. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Infidélité", 1900, published 1999 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Anselm Vinée (1847 - 1921), "Infidélité" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-10-19
Line count: 30
Word count: 150

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