The libretto is based on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s 1847 poem “The Blessed Damozel,” about a young woman who cannot enjoy heaven while her lover is still on earth. Although Debussy also owned a copy of Rossetti’s subsequently painted, typically luminous pre-Raphaelite portrait of his heroine, the composer knew the poem in the French translation by Gabriel Sarrazin. This translation omitted several stanzas of the original poem, and Debussy trimmed it even further, cutting some descriptions and the
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