by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)
Les feuilles s'ouvraient sur le bord des...
Language: French (Français)
Les feuilles s'ouvraient sur le bord des branches
Délicatement.
Les cloches tintaient, légères et franches,
Dans le ciel clément.
Rythmique et fervent comme une antienne,
Ce lointain appel
Me remémorait la blancheur chrétienne
Des fleurs de l'autel.
Ces cloches parlaient d'heureuses années,
Et, dans le grand bois,
Semblaient reverdir les feuilles fanées,
Des jours d'autrefois.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Romance", appears in Les Aveux, in Dilettantisme [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Les Cloches", L. 65/(79) no. 1 (1891) [ voice and piano ], from Deux Romances, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jeff Smallman (b. 1965), "Les Cloches", published 2003 [ high voice and piano ], from Tableaux éternels, no. 6, Hensall, Ontario (Canada), Lighthouse Music Publications [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant A. Lewis) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Die Glocken", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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