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by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)

Un danger circule à l'ombre
Language: French (Français) 
Un danger circule à l'ombre,
  Au chant de l'oiseau,
Qui descend, [dès qu'il]1 fait sombre,
  Se plaindre au roseau.
Alors tout ce qui respire
  Se prend à rêver ;
Et le ruisseau qui soupire
  Semble l'éprouver.

Partout les nids et les ailes
  Tremblent doucement,
Dénonçant des tourterelles
  L'entretien charmant ;
L'été brûle avec mystère
  Dans les lits en fleurs
Des seuls amants de la terre
  Sans [blâme]2 et sans pleurs.

Eté, si trop jeune encore
  Pour fuir un danger,
L'enfant rêveur que j'adore
  S'attarde au verger,
Laisse dans l'errante nue
  Ton charme cruel,
Et [sauve]3 l'âme ingénue
  Du plaisir mortel !

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Hahn 

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Confirmed with Les Œuvres poétiques de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, ed. by Marc Bertrand, Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1973.

1 Hahn: "quand il"
2 Hahn: "haine"
3 Hahn: "garde de"

Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Dans l'été" [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 Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Dans l'été", 1908 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Joseph Bonaventure Laurens (1801 - 1890), "En été" [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sylvain Labartette

This text was added to the website: 2005-02-21
Line count: 24
Word count: 101

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