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by Nicolas François Guillard (1752 - 1814)

Je cède à vos désirs
Language: French (Français) 
Je cède à vos désirs: du sort qui nous opprime
Instruisons Électre, ma soeur!
Aux horreurs du trépas j'arrache une victime
Et je sers à la fois la nature et mon coeur...
Hélas! Je ne puis m'en défendre:
Pour l'un de ces infortunés
Par nos barbares lois à la mort condamnés,
Je sens la pitié la plus tendre,
Mon coeur s'unit à lui par des rapports secrets...
Oreste serait de son âge;
Ce captif malheureux m'en rappelle l'image,
Et sa noble fierté m'en retrace les traits.

Text Authorship:

  • by Nicolas François Guillard (1752 - 1814) [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 Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714 - 1787), "Je cède à vos désirs", from the opera [selections] Iphigénie en Tauride, Act III, Scene 1 [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English [singable] (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) , title 1: "Ah! well, so let it be!"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 86

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