Dans la pénombre

Dans la pénombre (FR) In the Semidarkness. Fauré's setting (1914, Le Jardin clos #6) for voice and piano of the ninth poem from the Jeux et songes (Games and Dreams) section of the volume Entrevisions (Indistinct Sightings, 1898) by van Lerberghe. The first and second stanzas of the poem were lifted by van Lerberghe from an earlier poem of his titled »Les Lys qui filent« (The Lilies That Spin), published in La Jeune Belgique. Fauré cut the second stanza from the poem because he felt it too…