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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Eh quoi ! dans cette ville d'eaux
Language: French (Français) 
Eh quoi ! dans cette ville d'eaux,
Trêve, repos, pais, intermède
Encor toi de face ou de dos ;
Beau petit ami : Ganymède !

L'aigle t'emporte, on dirait comme
À regret de parmi des fleurs
Son aile d'élans économe
Semble te vouloir par ailleurs

Que chez ce Jupin tyrannique
Comme qui dirait au Revard
Et son œil qui nous fait la nique
Te coule un drôle de regard.

Bah, reste avec nous, bon garçon,
Notre ennui, viens donc le distraire
Un peu, de la bonne façon,
N'es-tu pas notre petit frère ?

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Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Sur une statue", written 1889 [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 Bernard Foccroulle (b. 1953), "Ganymède" [voice and piano] [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2012-03-02
Line count: 16
Word count: 88

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