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by Paul Claudel (1868 - 1955)

Sieste
Language: French (Français) 
Deux heures après diner
Il est temps de se reposer

Ni mouvement aucun bruit
Deux heures après midi

Un chien prudent vient inspecter
la terrasse du café

Tout est fermé à la mairie
item à la gendarmerie

Dans le vide de l'église
Le Crucifix agonise

Le jet d'eau chez le notaire
Suit son rêve protocolaire

Mais la chambre silencieuse
Dégage une odeur ombreuse

De feuillage et de lilas
De cire et de chocolat

Dans la corbeille à ouvrage
Le livre abandonné surnage

Et l'oeil sous le long cil éteint
Tenant sa main avec sa main

Insensible à travers le store 
Au rayon qui la colore

Sommeille dans le demi soleil
Une jeune fille vermeille.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Claudel (1868 - 1955) [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 Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Sieste", H. 138 no. 1 (1939), published 1942 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Claudel, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 114

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