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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Espère, enfant! demain! et puis demain...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Espère, enfant! demain! et puis demain encore!
Et puis toujours demain! croyons dans l'avenir.
Espère! et chaque fois que se lève l'aurore,
Soyons là pour prier comme Dieu pour bénir!

Nos fautes, mon pauvre ange, ont causé nos souffrances.
Peut-être qu'en restant bien long-temps à genoux,
Quand il aura béni toutes les innocences,
Puis tous les repentirs, Dieu finira par nous!

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Oeuvres Complètes de Victor Hugo. Poésie V, Les chants du crépuscule, Paris: Eugène Renduel et H. Delloye, 1839, pages 257-258.


Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Espoir en Dieu", appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 30 [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 Giovanni Luigi Bazzoni (c1814 - 1871), "Espoir en Dieu" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830 - 1914), "Espoir en Dieu", published c1890 [ high voice and piano ], Édition 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by C. Terhorst , "Espère, enfant", published c1840 [ voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Brix von Wahlberg [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "L'espérance", op. 42 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 6, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pierre Uga (b. 1931), "Espère, enfant !", 1956-57 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Espoir en Dieu", published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Paris: Choudens ; and London: Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co. [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel.
      • Go to the text. [Note: the text is not in the database yet.]

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2013-05-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 61

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