“… Come closer to nature. Try to say, as if you were the first man, what you see… your faith in a beauty…” Rainer Maria RILKE’s poetry is first and foremost about nature, whose obvious beauty he loves: a flower, a spring evening, a pond… The pond, a receptacle of life, serves as a place of exchange between heaven and nature. To express the particular nature of ponds, he will evoke mirrors. RILKE assigns a pre-eminent role to the young girl who has her place at the centre of nature. After a musical overture, we take the girl’s side, restored to her original purity, transported to the time of Genesis. The world identifies itself with her, everything that strikes the senses melts into her, and allows us to understand the profound harmony of the Cosmos created by music. (Henri THÉRON)