Claire de lune, from Quatre chansons de jeunesse Claude Debussy
Lyrics by Paul Verlaine
Your soul
is a chosen landscape charmed by masquers and bergamasquers, playing the lute
and dancing and half sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
Even while
they sing in the minor mode of love triumphant and life opportune, they do not
seem to believe in their felicity, and their songs blend with the moonlight,
and their songs blend with the moonlight.
With the
calm moonlight, sad and beautiful, that makes the bird dream in the trees, and
sob with ecstasy the fountains, the tall slender fountains among the marbles,
the tall slender fountains among the marbles, Ah-
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Claude Debussy
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Claire de lune, from Quatre chansons de jeunesse Claude Debussy
Lyrics by Paul Verlaine
Your soul is a chosen landscape charmed by masquers and bergamasquers, playing the lute and dancing and half sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
Even while they sing in the minor mode of love triumphant and life opportune, they do not seem to believe in their felicity, and their songs blend with the moonlight, and their songs blend with the moonlight.
With the calm moonlight, sad and beautiful, that makes the bird dream in the trees, and sob with ecstasy the fountains, the tall slender fountains among the marbles, the tall slender fountains among the marbles, Ah-
In the calm moonlight, sad and beautiful.
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