Cécile

Le grandchinois de Lancastre
vous attire avec des fleurs
puis vous inonde d'odeurs...
bientôt sa pipe est votre astre!
Du lys au pavot, Cécile,
la route, hélas, est docile.

by Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) , from Suzanne et le pacifique, published 1922

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

by Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) , "Cécile", H. 148 no. 3 (1941), published 1947, from Petit cours de morale, no. 3.

GER German (Bertram Kottmann)
ENG English (Faith J. Cormier)

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Sheet music:

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