Dans la pénombre
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): CAT DUT ENG GER
À quoi, dans ce matin d'avril,
Si douce et d'ombre enveloppée,
La chère enfant au cœur subtil
Est-elle ainsi tout occupée ?
La trace blonde de ses pas
Se perd parmi les grilles closes ;
Je ne sais pas, je ne sais pas.
Ce sont d'impénétrables choses.
Pensivement, d'un geste lent,
En longue robe, en robe a queue,
Sur le soleil au rouet blanc
A filer la laine bleue.
A sourire à son rêve encor,
Avec ses yeux de fiancée,
A tresser des feuillages d'or
Parmi les lys de sa pensée.
G. Fauré sets stanzas 1, 3-4
Confirmed with van Lerberghe, Charles,
Entrevisions, suivi de Poèmes posthumes, Paris, G. Crès, 1923, pages 24-25.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "A la penombra", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "In het halfdonker nog", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "In the Shadows", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Im Zwielicht", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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A la penombra
Language: Catalan (Català)  after the French (Français)
Amb què, en aquest matí d’abril,
tan dolça i embolcallada d’ombra,
l’estimada criatura del cor subtil,
ha estat així, tota enfeinada?
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Pensarosa, amb un gest lent,
amb vestit llarg, amb vestit de cua,
al sol, en el torn blanc,
a filar la llana blava.
A somriure del seu somni encara,
amb els seus ulls de promesa,
a trenar fullatges d’or
entre els lliris dels seus pensaments.
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- Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2023 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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