Serious air | Ah! Flee now

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by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Ah! fuyez à présent

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ENG GER GER

Ah! fuyez à présent,
Malheureuses pensées!
O! colère, o! remords!
Souvenirs qui m'avez
Les deux tempes pressées,
De l'étreinte des morts.
Sentiers de mousse pleins,
Vaporeuses fontaines, 
Grottes profondes, voix
Des oiseaux et du vent
Lumières incertaines
Des sauvages sous-bois,
Insectes animaux,
Beauté future,
Ne me repousse pas,
Ô divine nature
Je suis ton suppliant.
Ah! fuyez à présent,
Malheureuses pensées!
O! colère, o! remords!

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Text Authorship:

by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas, no title, written 1899-1901, appears in Les Stances, in 3. Stances, troisième livre, no. 8, Paris, Éd. de La Plume, first published 1901 [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 Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941), "Ah, fuyez à présent, malheureuses pensées", published 1929 [ high voice and piano ], from Les stances, no. 7, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Air grave", FP 46 no. 3 (1927-1928), published 1928-1930 [ soprano and piano or orchestra ], from Airs chantés, no. 3, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Serious air", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Linda Godry) , "Somber song", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Ernste Weise", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Linda Godry) , "Ernstes Lied", copyright © 2008, (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: 20
Word count: 65

Serious air

Language: English after the French (Français)

Ah! Flee now
miserable thoughts!
Oh! Rage, oh! Scruples!
Memories which have
pressed both my temples
in the grip of the dead.
Paths of thick moss,
vaporous fountains,
deep grottos, voices
of birds and the wind,
uncertain lights
of wild primeval forests,
insects, animals,
future beauty,
do not turn me away,
o divine nature,
I am your supplicant.
Ah! Flee now
miserable thoughts!
Oh! Rage, oh! Scruples!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas, no title, written 1899-1901, appears in Les Stances, in 3. Stances, troisième livre, no. 8, Paris, Éd. de La Plume, first published 1901
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This text was added to the website: 2008-02-25
Line count: 20
Word count: 67