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by Léon-Émile Petitdidier (1839 - 1927), as Émile Blémont

Parfum de fleur
Language: French (Français) 
Chaque beau jour qui s'écoule
Fuit pour ne plus revenir;
Le clair printemps se déroule,
Le printemps pur va finir.

Je rêve; ma rêverie
Est un abîme sans fond,
Où la vision fleurie
Et la fleur qui meurt s'en vont

"Toute candeur toute aurore,
Passe et s'éteint sans motif!"
Voilà ce qu'à l'air sonore
Confie un oiseau plaintif.

La fleur Jo, comme elle est fraiche!
La fleur Lan, quel fin joyau!
Puis la fleur Lan se dessèche,
L'ombre emporte la fleur Jo.

Elle est divine et succombe
La fleur au parfum subtil!
La fleur penche, la fleur tombe;
Mais son parfum où va-t'il?

Text Authorship:

  • by Léon-Émile Petitdidier (1839 - 1927), as Émile Blémont, "Parfum de fleur", appears in Poèmes de Chine, in 1. Printemps, no. 27, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1887 [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 Claudius Blanc (1854 - 1900), "Parfum de fleur", subtitle: "Poème de Chine" [medium voice and piano], from Mélodies Orientales, no. 3, from Poèmes Chinois, no. 3, Édition Rouart, Lerolle [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 103

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