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by Alfred Meurath

La nuit
Language: French (Français) 
La nuit c’est l’heure du songe 
Des rêves, et de l’amour. 
De la douleur qui nous ronge, 
Et la fin des maux de ce jour. 
La nuit c’est le noir et l’ombre, 
C’est l’heure du doux repos, 
Pour l’homme qui dort dans l’ombre, 
Les paupières et le coeur clos. 
La nuit c’est le grand silence, 
La solitude et l’ennui; 
Troubles en notre conscience, 
Car elle songe la nuit. 
Et songe a de tristes choses, 
Car la dans l’ombre est l’abîme! 
Heureux, l’homme qui repose 
Et dort dans la nuit sublime!

Note: the score contains several misspellings that have been corrected above. In Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works by Barbara B. Heyman (Oxford University Press, 2012), the author speculates that this text was written by Barber himself. See page 47.


Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Meurath

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "La nuit", 1925 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-09-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 90

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