L'ombre des feuilles d'oranger
Language: French (Français)
La jeune fille qui travaille tout le jour
dans sa chambre solitaire est doucement émue
si elle entend tout à coup le son d’une flûte de jade ;
Et elle s’imagine qu’elle entend
la voix d’un jeune garçon.
À travers le papier des fenêtres,
l’ombre des feuilles d’oranger
vient s’asseoir sur ses genoux ;
Et elle s’imagine que quelqu’un
a déchiré sa robe de soie.
Confirmed with Judith Walter (Judith Gautier), Le Livre de jade, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1867, pages . The author of the original Chinese is given as Tin-Tun-Ling, but according to "Sur les sources du Livre de Jadede Judith Gautier (1845-1917) (Remarques sur l'authenticité des poèmes)" by Ferdinand Stocès in the Revue de littérature comparée 2006/3 (no 319), pages 335 to 350, this poem is probably by Judith Gautier herself.
Note: this is a prose text. The line-breaks have been added arbitrarily.
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