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by Albert Liénard (1875 - 1927), as Louis Payen
Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

Paysage majeur
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
L'heure brûle, 
Midi s'est couché dans les champs.
L'orgueil de chaque vie à sa splendeur s'enchaîne,
Le soleil, du haut des cieux éblouissants,
Pose son glaive d'or sur le coeur de la plaine.

Un peu d'ombre s'assied au coeur des arbres roux,
Une chaude torpeur donne à la solitude
Le mol apaisement d'un silence plus doux 
Où la terre alanguit encor sa lassitude.

Mais je m'offre au soleil ardent car j'ai voulu
Qu'un lumineux baiser descendit dans mes veines.
Et j'élève mon coeur, ce coeur irrésolu
Qu'attriste son bonheur et que charme sa peine,

Pour que le vaste ciel ennivre de clarté
Lui verse lentement sa force de l'Été.

Text Authorship:

  • by Albert Liénard (1875 - 1927), as Louis Payen [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 Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "Paysage majeur", published 1914 [high voice and piano], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , title 1: "Major landscape", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 109

Major landscape
Language: English  after the French (Français) 
The hour burns. 
Noon lies over the fields. 
The pride of each life linked to its splendor, 
the sun, high in the dazzling sky, 
thrusts its golden sword into the heart of the plain. 

There is a bit of shade among the reddish trees. 
A hot torpor gives to solitude 
the limp appeasement of a sweeter silence 
where earth still languishes in lassitude. 

But I offer myself to the burning sun, for I wanted 
a luminous kiss to descend into my veins. 
I lift my undecided heart, 
saddened by happiness and charmed by sadness, 

so that the wide heaven drunken with brightness
slowly pour into it the strength of its summer.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2004 by Faith J. Cormier, (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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Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Albert Liénard (1875 - 1927), as Louis Payen
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This text was added to the website: 2004-04-11
Line count: 15
Word count: 111

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