Avant que tu ne t'en ailles

Avant que tu ne t'en ailles (FR) Before You Go Away. Fauré's setting (1892 / 94 La Bonne Chanson #6) for voice and piano of the fifth poem from La Bonne Chanson (1869) by Verlaine. The poem was written in August 1869 at Lécluse. The form of the poem, two interlocking sets of ideas, alternating consistently, derives from a work by Villiers de l'Isle Adam, »A une enfant taciturne« (To a Taciturn Girl) published in 1866 in the Premier Parnasse contemporain. Verlaine's poem was set by 16 composers…