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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Quand même tu dirais
Language: French (Français) 
Quand même tu dirais
Que tu me trahirais
Si c'était ton caprice,
Qu'est-ce que me ferait
Ce terrible secret
Si c'était mon caprice ?

De quand même t'aimer,
-- Dusses-tu le blâmer,
Ou plaindre mon caprice,
D'être si bien à toi
Qu'il ne m'est dieu ni roi
Ni rien que ton caprice ?

Quand tu me trahirais
Eh bien donc, j'en mourrais,
Adorant ton caprice ;
Alors qui me ferait
Un malheur qui serait
Conforme à mon caprice ?

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres complètes de Paul Verlaine. Élégies -- Dans les limbes dédicages -- Épigrammes -- Chair -- Invectives, Tome III, Paris, Léon Vanier, 1901, page 290.

Note: in the antepenultimate line, F. Rzewski uses "que" instead of "qui"; this is probably an error.


Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Logique", appears in Chair, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Gaston Delétré (1872 - 1957), "Galanterie", 1894, published 1952, copyright © 1955 [ voice and piano ], in La Grive, Jan. 1952 ; Paris, Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021), "Logique", 1992 [ voice, piccolo, flute, violoncello, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2012-02-07
Line count: 18
Word count: 74

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