Twilight | This was effectively in June, at dusk

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by Louis Marie Julien Viaud (1850 - 1923), as Pierre Loti

Translation © by Jean-Pierre Granger

C'était bien un crépuscule de juin

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

C'était bien un crépuscule de juin ;
il y avait des parfums de fleurs dans ce cimetière,
des parfums si suaves, si pénétrants, qu'ils me grisaient ;
il y avait des guirlandes de roses partout sur les tombeaux,
et de hautes herbes fleuries,
au-dessus desquelles les phalènes et les moucherons
dansaient leurs rondes légères.
Tout cela m'enivrait de vie et d'amour,
moi qui était mort...

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Text Authorship:

by Louis Marie Julien Viaud (1850 - 1923), as Pierre Loti, no title, appears in Pasquala Ivanovitch, chapter 8 [author's text not yet checked 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 Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909), "Crépuscule", 1897, published <<1930 [medium voice and piano], from Deux morceaux de prose de Pierre Loti, no. 2, Éd. Mutuelle [
text verified 1 time
]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Jean-Pierre Granger) , title 1: "Twilight", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Jean-Pierre Granger

This text was added to the website: 2009-06-10
Line count: 9
Word count: 63

Twilight

Language: English after the French (Français)

This was effectively in June, at dusk;
There were scents of flowers in this graveyard,
Such exquisite fragrance, so penetrating, I was intoxicated;
There were garlands of roses all over the tombs,
And high grass in flower
over which moths and midges
Made their light round dance.
All that exhilarated me with life and love,
I, who was dead...

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Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2010 by Jean-Pierre Granger.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Louis Marie Julien Viaud (1850 - 1923), as Pierre Loti, no title, appears in Pasquala Ivanovitch, chapter 8
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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-21
Line count: 9
Word count: 59