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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

La source tombait du rocher
Language: French (Français) 
La source tombait du rocher
Goutte à goutte à la mer affreuse.
L'Océan, fatal au rocher,
Lui dit : » Que me veux-tu, pleureuse ?

» Je suis la tempête et l'effroi ;
» Je finis où le ciel commence.
» Est-ce que j'ai besoin de toi,
» Petite, moi qui suis l'immense ? «

La source dit au gouffre amer :
» Je te donne, sans bruit ni gloire,
» Ce qui te manque, ô vaste mer !
» Une goutte d'eau qu'on peut boire. «

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Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1854, appears in Les Contemplations, in 5. Livre cinquième -- En marche, no. 4 [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 Willem van der Bilt (1901 - 1990), "La source tombait du rocher", 1978, published 1979 [ medium voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Nguyen Phuc Buu Phoi (b. 1945), "La Source", 1993?, published 1993 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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: 81

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