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by Fernand Gregh (1873 - 1960)

Pluie
Language: French (Français) 
Lente nuit de juillet pluvieuse ! J'écoute
La pluie au loin tomber dans l'ombre goutte à goutte.. 
Un vent humide et frais agite les rameaux.
Tous les chiens se sont tus dans les lointains hameaux. 
Tous les parfums du jour sont morts sous les feuillées: 
On ne sent que l'odeur des verdures mouillées.
douceur, ô mystère immense de la nuit !
Pas une étoile au ciel; nul chant, nul pas, nul bruit.
Seulement, sur un fond d'indéfinis murmures,
L'égouttement léger de la pluie aux ramures.
La terre est un jardin clos et silencieux,
Un bosquet sombre et tiède endormi sous les cieux, 
Où rien ne vit, sinon le bruit doux et sans nombre 
Des gouttes que la pluie éparpille dans l'ombre...

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Confirmed with Gregh, Fernand, La beauté de vivre, Paris, Éd. Calmann Lévy, 1900, page 45.


Text Authorship:

  • by Fernand Gregh (1873 - 1960), "Pluie", written 1897, appears in La beauté de vivre, in 5. Tristesses, Paris, Éd. Calmann-Lévy, first published 1900 [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 George Enescu (1881 - 1955), "Pluie", op. 19 no. 1 (1915), published 1965 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre Mélodies de Fernand Gregh (formerly Trois Mélodies), no. 1, Éd. Musicale des compositeurs de Roumanie [sung text not yet checked]

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