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Le long du Quai, les grands vaisseaux, Que la houle incline en silence, Ne prennent pas garde aux berceaux, Que la main des femmes balance. Mais viendra le jour des adieux, Car il faut que les femmes pleurent, Et que les hommes curieux Tentent les horizons qui leurrent ! Et ce jour-là les grands vaisseaux, Fuyant le port qui diminue, Sentent leur masse retenue Par l'âme des lointains berceaux.
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Text Authorship:
- by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), title 1: "Le long du quai", title 2: "Le Long du quai", written 1865, appears in Stances et Poèmes, in 1. Stances, in 4. Mélanges, no. 16, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Guy d'Arvor , as Albert Voisin, "Le Long du Quai", subtitle: "Berceuse", <<1899 [ medium voice, piano, and cello ad libitum ], Paris, Éd. Blanc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "Le long du quai, les grands vaisseaux", published 1884 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 2, no. 16, Paris, Éd. Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Les Berceaux", op. 23 no. 1 (1879), published 1881, first performed 1882 [ medium voice and piano ], Éditions J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joseph Jongen (1873 - 1953), "Les berceaux", 1893 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Jumel (1877 - 1898), "Le Long du quai", 1895 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Mélodies, no. 2, Éd. Mutuelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by C. Renvoisé , "Le long du quai", <<1911 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 68
Along the quay, the great ships that the sea-swells tilt in silence, take no notice of the cradles rocked by the hands of women. But the day of parting will come, because women must weep and curious men must be tempted toward horizons that will delude them! And that day, the great ships, fleeing from the port that grows small, will feel their mass restrained by the soul of distant cradles.
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Translations of titles:"Le long du quai" = "Along the quay"
"Les berceaux" = "Cradles"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2016 by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), title 1: "Le long du quai", title 2: "Le Long du quai", written 1865, appears in Stances et Poèmes, in 1. Stances, in 4. Mélanges, no. 16, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866
This text was added to the website: 2016-04-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 71