Dans la forêt féerique à la sournoise source J'ai vu boire un pastour en ses deux mains en coupe ; Entre ses doigts mal joints l'eau coulait sur la mousse Comme la clarté filtre aux calices qu'on coupe. Il a coupé des fleurs aux rives de la source Et jouant un air triste et lent qui s'énamoure Aux trous des musicaux roseaux aux notes douces Il a pleuré d'amour pour sa douce pastoure. Et je me suis perdu dans la forêt lointaine A t'écouter chanter cet air mélodieux, Pauvre pastour pleurant au bord de la fontaine Où les nymphes du soir viennent mirer leurs yeux.
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Confirmed with Tristan Klingsor, Le Valet de cœur. Poèmes, deuxième édition, Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1908, pages 79-80.
Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Le pastour", written 1894-1895, appears in Le valet de cœur: poèmes, in 2. Bergeries, no. 10, Paris, éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1908 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jean Cartan (1906 - 1932), "Le pastour", 1926, published 1927 [ voice and piano or flute, harp, and string quartet ], from Cinq Poèmes de Tristan Klingsor, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
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