Élégie

Ô, doux printemps d'autre fois, vertes saisons, 
Vous avez fui pour toujours!
Je ne vois plus le ciel bleu;
Je n'entends plus les chants joyeux des oiseaux!
En emportant mon bonheur, mon bonheur...
Ô bien-amé, tu t'en es allé!
Et c'est en vain que [le printemps revient!]1
Oui, sans retour, 
avec toi, le gai soleil,
Les jours riants sont partis!
Comme en mon coeur tout est sombre et glacé!
Tout est flétri 
pour toujours!

by Louis Gallet (1835-1898)

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

by Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954) , "Élégie", 1901.
by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) , "Élégie", 1869.

ENG English (Anne Evans)

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