Clair de lune
Music: Marie Jaëll (1846–1925) · Words: Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
La lune était sereine et jou- ait sur les
flots. La fenêtre enfin libre est ouverte à
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The words
La lune était sereine et jou- ait sur les
flots. La fenêtre enfin libre est ouverte à
la bri- se,
La sultane regar- de,
et la mer qui se brise,
Làbas, d'un flot d’ar- gent brode les noirs
î- lots.
De ses doigts en vi- brant
s’échappe la guitare.
Elle écoute ...
Un bruit sourd frappe les sourds échos.
Est-ce un lourd vaisseau turc qui vient des
eaux de Cos, Bat- tant l’archipel grec de sa
rame tartare ?
Sontce des cormorans qui plongent tour à
tour, Et coupent l’eau, qui roule en perles
sur leur aile?
Est-ce un djinn qui làhaut siffle d’une voix
grêle, Et jette dans la mer les cré- neaux de
la tour?
Qui trouble ain- si les flots près du sérail
des femmes?
Ni le noir cormoran, sur la vague ber- cé,
Ni les pierres du mur, ni le bruit caden- cé
D’un lourd vaisseau, rampant sur l’onde avec
des rames.
Ce sont des sacs pe- sants, d’où partent des
sanglots. On verrait, en son- dant la mer qui
les promène, Se mouvoir comme une forme
humaine
La lune était sereine et jouait sur les
flots.
About this song
- Music
- Marie Jaëll (1846–1925) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- French, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1893, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 4:04
- Its source files it as
- Les Orientales
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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