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Vous [aurez]1 beau faire et beau dire, L'oubli me serait odieux ; Et je vois toujours son sourire Des adieux. Vous [aurez]1 beau dire et beau faire, Sans espoir je dois la chérir ; Je souffre bien, mais je préfère En souffrir. Vous [aurez]1 beau faire et beau dire Dût-elle même l'ignorer, Je veux, fidèle à mon martyre, La pleurer. Vous [aurez]1 beau dire et beau faire, Seule, elle peut mon mal guérir ; Et j'aime mieux, s'il persévère, En mourir.
H. Gilles de Fontenailles sets stanzas 1, 3-4
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Rothschild: "avez"
Authorship
- by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "Obstination", appears in Les Récits et les Élégies, in Élégies, in 2. L'Exilée, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1877 [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 Hermann Bemberg (1861 - 1931), "Persévérance", 1896, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from 20 Mélodies, no. 15, Éd. Louis Gregh [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hercule Gilles de Fontenailles (1858 - 1922), "Obstination", stanzas 1,3-4 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Émile Paladilhe (1844 - 1926), "Vous aurez beau faire et beau dire", 1879 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild (1832 - 1924), "Vous avez beau faire et beau dire" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Silver (1868 - 1949), "Obstination", published [1891] [ high voice and piano ], Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Obstinacy", copyright © 2012
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This text was added to the website: 2012-11-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 81
Whatever you do or say, Forgetting would be odious to me; And I always see her smile of farewell. Whatever you say or do, I must cherish her without hope ; I suffer much, but I prefer to suffer. Whatever you do or say, Would she even ignore it? I want to be true to my martyrdom and weep for her. Whatever you do or say, Only she can heal my pain, And I would prefer if it persevered Unto death.
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- a text in French (Français) by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "Obstination", appears in Les Récits et les Élégies, in Élégies, in 2. L'Exilée, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1877
This text was added to the website: 2012-11-29
Line count: 16
Word count: 81