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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Le magicien, les yeux tout creux et...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Le magicien, les yeux tout creux et vides,
émet le mot qui correspond...
Et déjà naît, dans le silence aride,
le trouble sourd d'un gros remous fécond.

L'excite-t-il, ou bien déjà l'arrête?
Et qui l'emporte -, est-ce le magicien?
On conçoit qu'un fait fatal complète
son geste qui ordonne et retient.

Le mot agit, et nul ne le reprend
Soudain, à certaines heures, ce qu'on nomme
devient...quoi? Un être...presque homme,
et on le tue, en le nommant!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Le Magicien", appears in Poèmes et Dédicaces [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 Maurice Verheul (b. 1964), "Souvenirs de Muzot, Le Magicien" [ alto and piano ], from 6 songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

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

This text was added to the website: 2023-11-28
Line count: 12
Word count: 77

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