Ce soir, le vert jardin respire avec délices Après l'ardeur du jour ; La nuit, de sa rosée emplissant les calices, Les ferme tour à tour. Ô claires gouttes d'eau que balancent les urnes Odorantes des fleurs, Vous les rafraîchirez au gré des vents nocturnes, Doux après ces chaleurs ! Vous les rafraichirez lentement, fibre à fibre, Dans la sombre nuit d'or ; Et chacune demain, sur sa tige qui vibre, Sera plus droite encor. Ainsi gardons en nous pour les heures secrètes, Loin des regards moqueurs, Des larmes doucement closes, et toujours prètes A rafraîchir nos cœurs.
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Confirmed with Fernand Gregh, Les Clartés Humaines. Poésies. Deuxième mille, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1904, pages 47-48.
Text Authorship:
- by Fernand Gregh (1873 - 1960), "Rosée", appears in Les clartés humaines, in 3. Choses, no. 3 [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 Gina Araújo Régis de Oliveira (1890 - 1960), "Rosée", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], Paris: Ed. M. Serpeille [sung text not yet checked]
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