Roses et papillons (1860)

Victor Hugo’s Roses et papillons was first published as an envoi to La Fleur au papillon in his Chants du Crépuscule, where Franck also found the words for his S’il est un charmant gazon and Passez! Passez toujours! Franck’s butterfly also flutters in the upper half of the keyboard but, unlike Gounod’s, in triplets in the right hand against the regular duplets of the rose in the left. The same piano figuration is retained throughout while the harmonies twice slide (enharmonically) out of the tonic and back again.