Refrain:
 Ah! reste, reste dans mon cœur, 
 premier reve d'amour, 
 Comme dans un ruisseau la pourpre d'un beau jour. 

À mon amant j'ai fait don de ma vie, 
Tous mes échos seront pour mes accents, 
Tous mes matins, pour ses heureaux printemps, 
Tous mes plaisirs, pour son âme ravie. 
(Refrain)

Sois-en bien sûr, j'irai dans ta pensée, 
Naïve et simple, épancher mes secrets, 
Ainsi qu'un lys verse dans les forêts 
Sa poudre d'or sur la fraîche rosée. 
(Refrain)

Note: some catalogues give the poet as Flaubert, but the score indicates "Chevalier Bard", who could be Joseph "Chevalier" Bard, according to The Solo Songs of Darius Milhaud: A Historical and Analytical Contribution to the Curriculum of the College Voice Studio, a dissertation by Anne L. Patterson presented at University of Florida, 1989.

Text Authorship:

• possibly by Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
• possibly by Joseph 'Chevalier' Bard (1803 - 1861) [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), "La chanson du printemps ", op. 128d no. 2 (1933) [ soprano and piano ], from Deux Chansons de Madame Bovary, no. 2, transcriptions of music written for Jean Renoir's film Madame Bovary  [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2013-11-21
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