Claude Debussy - Two Romances for voice and piano (audio + sheet music)

The lyrics are from (in order of appearance) "Romance" and "Les cloches", both of which are poems written by French poet Paul Bourget (1852-1935). Here are English translations of the lyrics:

The spent and suffering soul,
the gentle soul, the fragrant soul
of the divine lilies which I gathered
in the garden of your thought,
where then have winds driven it,
that adorable soul of the lilies?
Is there no perfume left
of the celestial sweetness
of the days when you enveloped me
in a transcendent vapour ,
of hope, of faithful love,
of beatitude and of peace?...

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The leaves opened on the edge of the branches delicately.
The bells tolled, light and free, in the clear sky.
Rhythmically and fervently, like an antiphon, this far-away call
reminded me of the Christian whiteness of altar flowers.
These bells spoke of happy years, and in the large forest
they seemed to revive the withered leaves of days gone by.

(Wikipedia, MelodieTreasury, PoetryInTranslation)

Please take note that the audio AND the sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to 480p if the video is blurry.

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