Il pleut, Les vitres tintent. Le vent de Mai fait dans le parc un bruit d'automne. Une porte, en battant sans fin, grince une plainte Mineure et monotone. Il pleut... On dirait par moments qu'un million d'épingles Se heurte aux vitres et les cingles. Il pleut, Les vitres tintent. Le ciel cache un à un ses coins légers de bleu Sous de rapides nuées grises. Il pleut : -- La vie est triste ! N'importe ! Souffle le vent, batte la porte, Tombe la pluie ! N'importe ! J'ai dans mes yeux une clarté qui m'éblouit ; J'ai dans ma vie un grand espace bleu ; J'ai dans mon cœur un jardin vert, ombré de palmes Que balancent en plein azur les brises calmes : Je songe à elle ! Il pleut... -- La vie est belle !
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Confirmed with Fernand Gregh, Les Clartés Humaines. Poésies. Deuxième mille, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1904, pages 157-158. Note: we have corrected a typo in stanza 3, line 2, word 7; in this edition, it said "cingle". The score of Ropartz also uses "cingles".
Text Authorship:
- by Fernand Gregh (1873 - 1960), "Il pleut", written 1904?, appears in Les clartés humaines, in 7. Heures, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Charpentier, first published 1904 [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 Alfredo-Antonio-Maria Barbirolli (1871 - 1931), "Il pleut", published 1907 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, L. Grus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (1857 - 1934), "Il pleut", published 1913 [ high voice and piano ], from Les chants de la vie, no. 6, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "Il pleut", op. 8 (1908) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (1864 - 1955), "Il pleut", 1907 [sung text checked 1 time]
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