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by Émile Verhaeren (1855 - 1916)

Le printemps jeune et bénévole
Language: French (Français) 
Le printemps jeune et bénévole
Qui vêt le jardin de beauté
Elucide nos voix et nos paroles
Et les trempe dans sa limpidité.

La brise et les lèvres des feuilles
Babillent -- et lentement effeuillent
En nous les syllabes de leur clarté.

Mais le meilleur de nous se gare
Et fuit les mots matériels ;
Un simple et doux élan muet
Mieux que tout verbe amarre
Notre bonheur à son vrai ciel :
Celui de ton âme, à deux genoux,
Tout simplement, devant la mienne,
Et de mon âme, à deux genoux,
Très doucement, devant la tienne.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Verhaeren (1855 - 1916), no title, appears in Les heures claires, no. 9, Bruxelles, Éd. Edmond Deman, first published 1896 [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 Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (1888 - 1969), "Le printemps jeune et bénévole", published 1945 [ voice and piano ], from Heures claires , no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-07-05
Line count: 16
Word count: 94

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