by Cécile Sauvage (1883 - 1927)
Après moi celui qui viendra
Language: French (Français)
Après moi celui qui viendra Sur la route grise et poudreuse Verra l’empreinte de mon pas Dont l’argile un instant se creuse, Mais ne se demandera pas Quelle peine appuya ce pas Sur la route silencieuse.
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Confirmed with Cécile Sauvage, Le Vallon, Paris, Mercure de France, 1913, page 164.
Text Authorship:
- by Cécile Sauvage (1883 - 1927), no title, written 1909, appears in Le Vallon. Poèmes, in 4. Mélancolie, no. 27, first published 1913 [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 Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908 - 2002), "L'empreinte", 1939, first performed 1940 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Cécile Sauvage, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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