Quand tu plonges tes yeux dans mes yeux

»Quand tu plonges tes yeux dans mes yeux« (FR) When You Plunge Your Eyes Into Mine. Fauré's setting (1914, Le Jardin clos #2) for voice and piano of the eleventh (final) poem by van Lerberghe from the Le Jardin clos section of the volume Entrevisions (Indistinct Sightings, 1898). The poem is preceded by a Latin epigraph: »Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi« taken from the Bible, »Song of Solomon,« chapter 6, verse 3: »I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine . . .« Fauré changes the first…