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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]1 ma 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;]1 L'air est pur, le gazon doux ... Rien n'a donc changé que vous.
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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 [ 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, Eugène 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]
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Infidelity", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Here is the elm whose shadow sways on the path; here is the young briar rose, the wood where silence sleeps, and the stone bench where we loved to sit in the evenings. Here is the bower smelling of ebony and lilacs where we went together, my love, when we were tired, to escape the heat under the garlands of flowers. The air is pure, the grass is soft. Nothing has changed except you!
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- a text in French (Français) by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "Infidélité", appears in Premières Poésies ― 1830-1832 ―
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