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by André Gide (1869 - 1951)

Jérôme et Alissa III
Language: French (Français) 
"C'est ta lettre qui m'a fait revenir."

"Je m'en suis bien doutée," dit-elle, [...] "et
c'est bien là ce qui me fâche.  Pourquoi as-tu mal pris
ce que je disais?  C'était pourtant bien simple
... [...] Nous étions heureux ainsi, je te l'avais
bien dit, pourquoi t'étonner que je refuse lorsque tu me
proposes de changer?"

En effet, je me sentais heureux auprès d'elle, si parfaitement
heureux que ma pensée allait chercher à ne
différer plus en rien de la sienne: et déjà je ne
souhaitais plus rien au-delà de son sourire, et que de marcher
avec elle, ainsi, dans un tiède chemin bordé de fleurs,
en lui donnant la main.

Note: Ellipses in square brackets [...] indicate that some of the original text is missing here (not set by Milhaud).


Text Authorship:

  • by André Gide (1869 - 1951), appears in La Porte étroite , first published 1909 [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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Jérôme et Alissa III", op. 9 no. 5 (1913), rev. 1931 [ soprano and piano ], from Alissa, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2012-06-19
Line count: 13
Word count: 110

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