Tout se tait ; plus rien qu'un murmure. Ce soir, debout dans les grands blés, j'entends s'écouter la Nature. Quelle heure vient de s'envoler?... Tout se tait ; plus que ce murmure. Quelle heure, du clocher lointain, vient mourir au creux de ma main, contre mon oreille attentive ? ou revivre en mon cœur aimant, doucement, dans ses battements ? Plus rien, la terre est une église. L'hostie de la lune s'est levée. Les blés murmurent un ave que renvoie au clocher la brise, émue et large et envolée des grands blés même agenouillés.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "L'heure mystique", written 1909, appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in Le marchand d'images, in 5. Morcerf, suivi de Cantilènes et Ballades, in 1. Villes et villages, in 4. Vélizy, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Eugène Figuière, first published 1909 [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 Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "L'heure mystique", 1932, published 1934 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatre Mélodies, no. 2, Éd. “Au Ménestrel” Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand Lamy (1881 - 1966), "L'Heure mystique", 1920, published 1923 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes, paroles de Paul Fort, no. 1, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Floro Ugarte (1884 - 1975), "L'heure mystique", op. 14 (Mélodies) no. 3 (1917) [ medium-high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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