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Le vent dans les rochers sifflait et mugissait ; Le monde en frissonnant se reprenait à vivre, Et la mer immortelle au soleil bondissait Comme un jeune cheval que le grand air enivre. Secouant sa crinière épaisse vers les cieux, Elle semblait hennir et se cabrer de joie ; Et dans la liberté roulaient les flots joyeux Sous les baisers pourprés du matin qui flamboie. Et mon cœur s'est levé par ce matin d'été ; Car une belle enfant était sur le rivage, [Dardant sur moi ses yeux inondés]1 de clarté, [Et sur sa bouche errait un sourire sauvage]2. Toi que transfiguraient la jeunesse et l'amour, Tu m'apparus alors comme l'àme des choses ; Mon cœur vola vers toi, tu le pris sans retour, Et du ciel entr'ouvert pleuvaient sur nous des roses.
E. Chausson sets stanzas 3-4
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Chausson: "Laissant errer sur moi des yeux pleins"
2 Chausson: "Et qui me souriait d'un air tendre et sauvage"
Authorship
- by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 4, first published 1876 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "La fleur des eaux", op. 19 no. 1 (1882), published 1917, first performed 1893, orchestrated 1893 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer, no. 1, Rouart & Lerolle
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Korin Kormick) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 133
[... ... ... ...] [... ... ... ...] And my heart was exalted by this summer morning, Because a beautiful child was on the shore, Letting her luminous eyes roam over me, And who smiled at me with a tender, savage air. You who transfigured Youth and Love, You appeared to me thus like the soul of things; My heart flew towards you, you took it without return, And from the half-opened sky roses rained upon us.
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2011 by Korin Kormick, (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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- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 4, first published 1876
This text was added to the website: 2011-02-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 77