Le grand jet d'eau qui sanglotait Nuit et jour, âme inconsolée Sous la voute à demi croulée Est mort cette nuit et se tait Et le vent fou qui l'insultait Et chassait sa gerbe en volée Mêle les feuilles de l'allée A son silence qui chantait Mais sa tristesse survit toute Tandis qu'autrefois à goutte Tressaillait l'écho de la voute. Maintenant l'eau qui remuait Semble un lac de pleurs sourds... Écoute : il y rode un sanglot muet.
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Text Authorship:
- by Fernand Gregh (1873 - 1960), "Le silence de l'eau", appears in La Maison de l'Enfance, in 6. Soupirs, no. 3, Éd. Calmann-Lévy, first published 1897 [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 Otto Bouwens van der Boijen (1872 - 1922), "Le silence de l'eau", op. 18, published 1905?, from Mélodies, no. 6, Éd. O. Bouwens van der Boijen & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "Le silence de l'eau", 1903-04, published 1904 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes d'automne, no. 6, Paris, G. Astruc [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Eva Ruth Spalding (1882 - 1969), "Le silence de l'eau", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], Senart/ UMP [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guillermo Uribe Holguín (1880 - 1971), "Le silence de l’eau", op. 4 (Seis canciones) no. 5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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