À l'ombre aiguë du cyprès, mes deux lévriers dorment, comme des flèches dans un carquois. Referme doucement la porte, et viens les caresser : ta main fera passer dans leurs rêves la fraîcheur d'un ruisseau du Liban.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, L'édition d'Art H. Piazza, p.30
Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le sommeil des lévriers", appears in Le jardin des caresses [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 Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "Le sommeil des lévriers", op. 93 no. 4 (1926), published 2020 [ voice and piano ], from Le jardin des caresses, no. 4, Höflich, München [sung text not yet checked]
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