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by Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)

Tout en buvant de l’eau, nous ajustons...
Language: French (Français) 
Tout en buvant de l’eau, nous ajustons des rimes sur le vin et les festins,
et nous n’avons pas d’amour nous qui faisons [rêver]1 d’amour
Le soldat rubicond braille nos hyperboles en marchant à la charge, 
les libertins naïfs envient notre gaieté, et les femmes abusées, 
sanglotant sur nos poitrines, nous demandent comment 
nous fîmes pour exprimer si bien ces tendresses qui les ravagent 
et que nous semblons même ne pas comprendre !

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Hanf 

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Confirmed with Gustave Flaubert, La Tentation de Saint-Antoine; Œuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, Paris: Louis Conard, 1910, p.384

1 Hanf: "pleurer"

Text Authorship:

  • by Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), no title, appears in La Tentation de Saint-Antoine [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 Robert Hanf (1894 - 1944), "Les poètes", subtitle: "2me Symphonie" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2024-08-15
Line count: 7
Word count: 73

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