L'allée est sans fin

L'allée est sans fin,
Sous le ciel divin:
D'être pâle ainsi!
Sais-tu qu'on serait
Bien sous le secret
De ces arbresci?

Des messieurs bien mis,
Sans nul doute amis
Des Royers-Collards,
Vont vers le château :
J'estimerais beau
D'être ces vieillards.

Le château, tout blanc,
Avec, à son flane,
Le soleil couché,
Les champs à l'entour...
Oh! que notre amour
N'est-il là niché!

by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) , no title, from Romances sans paroles, in Paysages belges, in Bruxelles, in Simples fresques, no. 2

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) , "L'allée est sans fin", stanzas 1,3, from Chansons grises, no. 3.
by Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji (1892-1988) , "L'allée", 1924, from Trois Fêtes Galantes, no. 1.

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