Malédiction
Music: Marie Jaëll (1846–1925) · Words: Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
Qu’il erre sans re- pos, courbé dès sa
jeu- nesse, En des sables sans borne où le
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The words
Qu’il erre sans re- pos, courbé dès sa
jeu- nesse, En des sables sans borne où le
so- leil renaisse Sitôt qu’il aura lui!
Comme un noir meurtrier qui fuit dans la nuit
sombre, S’il marche, que sans cesse il entende
dans l’ombre Un pas derrière lui!
En des glaciers polis comme un tranchant de
hache, Qu’il glisse, et roule, et tombe,
et tombe, et se rattache De l’ongle à leurs
parois!
Qu’il soit pris pour un autre, et,
râlant sur la roue, Dise: “Je n’ai rien
fait!” Et qu’a- lors on le cloue Sur un gibet
en croix!
Qu’il pende échevelé, la bouche violette!
Que, visible à lui seul, la mort,
chauve squelette, Rie en le regardant!
Que son cadavre souffre, et vive assez encore
Pour sentir, quand la mort le ronge et le
dévore, Chaque coup de sa dent!
Qu’il ne soit plus vi- vant, et ne soit pas une
âme!
Que sur ses membres nus tombe un soleil de
flamme Ou la pluie à ruisseaux!
Qu'il s’éveille en sursaut chaque nuit dans
la brume. Et lutte, et se secoue,
et vainement écume Sous des griffes
d’oiseaux!
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
- 2:09
- 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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