Dors au fond de l'allée
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): CAT ENG GER
Dors au fond de l'allée,
tendre enfant, sous la dalle,
on fera le chant de l'été
autour de ton intervalle.
Si une blanche colombe
passait au vol là-haut,
je n'offrirais à ton tombeau
que son ombre qui tombe.
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Poèmes français. Vergers. Les Roses. Les Fenêtres. Carnet de Poche. Poèmes épars, Paris: Paul Hartmann, ed., 1935, page 131.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Tombeau dans un parc", op. 27 no. 3 (1950-1), published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies passagères, no. 3, Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bruno Gousset (b. 1958), "Tombeau dans un parc", op. 21 no. 14 (1983) [ high voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Tomba en un parc", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Thomas A. Gregg) , "Grave in a park", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Ruhestatt in einem Park", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 38
Grave in a park
Language: English  after the French (Français)
(in a park)
Sleep at the end of the avenue,
Tender child, under the flagstone,
one will make a song of summer
around your interval.
If a white dove
passes in flight above,
I would offer upon your tomb
only his shadow that falls.
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2010 by Thomas A. Gregg, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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This text was added to the website: 2010-11-15
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Word count: 45