Pagan evening | The moon shines over the woods

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by André Lebey (1877 - 1938)

Translation © by Judith Kellock

Soir païen

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG

La lune glisse sous les bois
Sa paleur douce et opalune 

Ecoutes tu toutes les voix
Monter du fond de toutes les ravines?

Soit silencieuse! Ecoute Ecoute, 
Une flûte prélude au fond du bois 

Je rêve de formes sur la route
Qui font revivre l'autrefois.

Oublirons-nous que l'huere est brêve
Et que l'aurore reviendra 

Les fleurs de nuit versent un rêve
Mais le soleil les refermera.

Text Authorship:

by André Lebey (1877 - 1938) [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 Georges Adolphe Hüe (1858 - 1948), "Soir païen", first performed 1898 [ voice, flute, piano ], from Chansons lointaines, no. 4, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "蒲甘之夜", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Judith Kellock) , "Pagan evening", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Peter Duyster , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 66

Pagan evening

Language: English after the French (Français)

The moon shines over the woods
Her paleness sweet and opaline . . .

Are you listening to all the voices
Rise from the bottom of the ravines?

Be quiet! Listen!
A flute  plays a flourish  from the depth of the wood. . .

I dream of figures on the road,
Who will come alive again.

We forget that time flies
And that dawn will come again.

The night flowers spill open with a dream,
But the sun will re-seal them.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2005 by Judith Kellock, (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 André Lebey (1877 - 1938)
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This text was added to the website: 2005-09-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 81