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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Ce n'est pas la justice qui tient la...
Language: French (Français) 
Ce n'est pas la justice qui tient la balance préciser
c'est toi, ô Dieu à l'envie indivise,
qui pèses nos torts,
et qui de deux coeurs qu'il meurtrit et triture
fais un immense coeur plus grand que nature,
qui voudrait encor

grandir...Toi, qui indifférente et superbe,
humilies la bouche et exaltes le verbe
vers un ciel ignorant...
Toi qui mutiles les êtres en les ajoutant
à l'ultime absence dont ils sont des fragments.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924/25, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, in Éros, no. 4 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Raffaele d'Alessandro (1911 - 1959), "Ce n’est pas la justice", op. 15 no. 4 (1937) [ voice and piano ], from Éros. Quatre mélodies récitées, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-10-14
Line count: 11
Word count: 73

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