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Oh! si quelqu'un passait aupr​è​s du cimeti​è​re!

from La Com​é​die de la Mort (2021) for tenor and piano by Thomas Oboe Lee

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LA TRÉPASSÉE.
Oh! si quelqu'un passait auprès du cimetière!
J'ai beau heurter du front les planches de ma bière,
        Le couvercle est trop lourd!
Le fossoyeur dort mieux que les morts qu'il enterre.
Quel silence profond! la route est solitaire;
        L'écho lui-même est sourd.

The dead girl:
Oh, if only some one by the cemetery would pass! In vain I strike my brow against the coffin boards; the lid too heavy is. Sounder than the dead he buries deep the grave-digger sleeps. The silence is profound; deserted is the road, and the echo’s self to my cries is deaf!


LE VER.
À moi tes bras d'ivoire, à moi ta gorge blanche,
À moi tes flancs polis avec ta belle hanche
        A l'ondoyant contour;
À moi tes petits pieds, ta main douce et ta bouche,
Et ce premier baiser que ta pudeur farouche
        Refusait à l’amour.

The worm:
Mine are thine ivory arms; mine thy fair white breast; mine thy polished waist and glorious hips luxuriant swelling; mine thy little feet; thy hands so soft; thy lips, and that first kiss which thy maidenly shame to love refused.

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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