Attente | Monte, écureuil, monte au grand chêne

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Monte, écureuil, monte au grand chêne

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Monte, écureuil, monte au grand chêne,
Sur la branche des cieux prochaine,
Qui plie et tremble comme un jonc.
Cigogne, aux vieilles tours fidèle,
Oh ! vole ! et monte à tire-d'aile
De l'église à la citadelle,
Du haut clocher au grand donjon.

Vieux aigle, monte de ton aire
A la montagne centenaire
Que blanchit l'hiver éternel;
Et toi qu'en ta couche inquiète
Jamais l'aube ne vit muette,
Monte, monte, vive alouette,
Vive alouette, monte au ciel !

Et maintenant, du haut de l'arbre,
Des flèches de la tour de marbre,
Du grand mont, du ciel enflammé,
A l'horizon, parmi la brume,
Voyez-vous flotter une plume,
Et courir un cheval qui fume,
Et revenir ma bien-aimée ?

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Text Authorship:

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Attente", written 1828, appears in Les Orientales, no. 20 [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 César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Attente", op. 32 (Sept Mélodies) no. 5, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Eugénie-Emilie Julliette Folville (1870 - 1946), "Attente", op. 27 no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Vincent d'Indy (1851 - 1931), "L'attente", 1872-76 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
by Théodore Jadoul (b. 1848), "Attente" [ medium voice and piano ], from 10 Mélodies, no. 2, Éd. Veuve Léopold Muraille [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis (Trouillon) Lacombe (1818 - 1884), "L'attente" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Felipe Pedrell (1841 - 1922), "Attente" [ high voice and piano ], from 12 Orientales, no. 8, Milan, G. Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "L'attente", 1855, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Éd. Richault [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), "Attente", WWV 55 (1839) [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Julius Boruttau (1877 - 1940) ; composed by Richard Wagner.
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