Dans un parfum de roses blanches

Dans un parfum de roses blanches (FR) In a Scent of White Roses. Fauré's setting (1906 / 10, La Chanson d'Eve #8) for voice and piano of the 27th poem in the Premières paroles (First Words) section of La Chanson d'Eve (1899 / 1903, pub. 1904) by van Lerberghe. Fauré changes the word soir (evening) to ombre (shadow) and ses (her) to les (the) to avoid excessive alliteration. He also cuts the seventh line of the poem, which is: »Sur le rivage expire un dernier flot lointain.« (On the shore one…