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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Il est un peu tard pour faire la belle
Language: French (Français) 
Il est un peu tard pour faire la belle,
Reine marguerite ; aux champs défleuris
Bientôt vont souffler le givre et la grêle.
-- Passant, l'hiver vient, et je lui souris.

Il est un peu tard pour faire la belle,
Étoile du soir ; les rayons taris
Sont tous retournés à l'aube éternelle.
-- Passant, la nuit vient, et je lui souris.

Il est un peu tard pour faire la belle,
Mon âme ; joyeuse en mes noirs débris,
Tu m'éblouis, fière et rouvrant ton aile.
-- Passant, la mort vient, et je lui souris.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Chanson", written 1854, appears in Les quatre vents de l'esprit, in 3. Le Livre Lyrique -- La Destinée, no. 30, first published 1908 [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 Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (1846 - 1919), "Il est un peu tard", op. 9 (Deux chansons de Victor Hugo) no. 1 (1879), published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki.
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This text was added to the website: 2013-07-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 89

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