S'il est un charmant gazon

S'il est un charmant gazon
Que le ciel arrose,
Où [brille]1 en toute saison
Quelque fleur éclose,
Où l'on cueille à pleine main
Lys, chèvre-feuille et jasmin,
J'en veux faire le chemin
Où ton pied se pose!

S'il est un sein bien aimant
Dont l'honneur dispose,
Dont le ferme dévouement
N'ait rien de morose,
Si toujours ce noble sein
Bat pour un digne dessein,
J'en veux faire le coussin
Où ton front se pose!

S'il est un rêve d'amour,
Parfumé de rose,
Où l'on trouve chaque jour
Quelque douce chose,
Un rêve que Dieu bénit,
Où l'âme à l'âme s'unit,
Oh! j'en veux faire le nid
Où ton coeur se pose!

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¹ Fauré: "naisse".

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

by Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) , "S'il est un charmant gazon", from Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 22, published 1834

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

by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) , "Rêve d'amour", op. 5 no. 2 (1865).
by César Franck (1822-1890) , "S'il est un charmant gazon", FWV. 78 (1847), rev. 1855-7. [female voice and piano]
by Lucien Hillemacher (1860-1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852-1933) , "S'il est un charmant gazon", from Vingt Mélodies, no. ?
by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "S'il est un charmant gazon", S. 284 no. 1 (1844), published 1844, stanzas 1,3 [voice and piano], Berlin, Schlesinger, also set in German
by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "S'il est un charmant gazon", S. 284 no. 2 (1849–59), published 1859, stanzas 1,3. [tenor and piano], also set in German
by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) , "Nouvelle chanson sur un vieil air", 1869.
by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) , "S'il est un charmant gazon", 1915, published 1915, note: an undated MS exists with the title "Chanson".

by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "Gibt es wo einen Rasen grün", S. 284 no. 1 (1844), published 1844 [soprano or tenor voice and piano], Berlin, Schlesinger, also set in French
by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "Gibt es wo einen Rasen grün", S. 284 no. 2 (1849-59), published 1859. [tenor and piano], also set in French

CHI Chinese (Yen-Chiang Che) , "如果有一個迷人的草地", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , "If there be a lovely grassy plot", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Enrico Magnani) , "Sogno d'amore", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (Charles Fonteyn Manney) , "If I knew a meadow fair"

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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Gibt es wo einen Rasen grün

Gibt es wo einen Rasen grün,
feucht von perlendem Regen,
wo Blumen, die nimmer verblühn,
duften süß dir entgegen,
wo da stehen in Fülle reich
Lilie, Geißblatt, Veilchen weich,
dir zum Pfad gäb' ich ihn gleich,
deinen Fuß zu hegen.










Gibt es wo enen Liebestraum,
der, voll wonnigem Segen,
wenn ein Glück du empfunden kaum,
neue Lust will erregen;
einen Traum von schönrem Stern,
wo nicht Seele der Seele mehr fern,
o, dir zum Hort gäb' ich ihn gern,
um dein Herz zu hegen.

Input by Virginia Knight

Authorship

Singable translation by Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) , title unknown

a text in French by Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) , "S'il est un charmant gazon", from Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 22, published 1834 ENG ITA CHI

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

by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "Gibt es wo einen Rasen grün", S. 284 no. 1 (1844), published 1844 [soprano or tenor voice and piano], Berlin, Schlesinger, also set in French
by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "Gibt es wo einen Rasen grün", S. 284 no. 2 (1849-59), published 1859. [tenor and piano], also set in French

Text added to the website: 2003-11-16.