L'ombre est bleue et la nuit palpite d'ors tremblants Dans l'azur, on croit voir flotter des voiles blancs Qui frémissent au souffle onduleux du mystère: Les longs voiles trainants des anges de la terre Qui montent vers les cieux, sans fin, sans bruit, en une Ascension dont l'essor tremble au clair de lune. N'entends-tu pas dans l'infini battre leurs ailes? Les étoiles, au chant des sphères éternelles, Palpitent dans le vent de ces ailes rythmées, Qui lentement, parmi les ombres embaumées Et le sommeil immense et bleu de toutes choses, Éventent le silence et font pâmer les roses.
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Text Authorship:
- by Fernand Gregh (1873 - 1960), "L'ombre est bleue", written 1896, appears in La Maison de l'Enfance, in 3. Heures, no. 10, Paris, Éd. Calmann-Lévy, first published 1897 [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), "L'ombre est bleue", op. 19 no. 3 (1916), published 1967 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre Mélodies de Fernand Gregh (formerly Trois Mélodies), no. 3, Éd. Musicale des compositeurs de Roumanie [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani
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