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J'avais mis toute mon âme dans une chanson que j'ai chanté aux hommes, et ils ont ri ! j'ai pris mon luth, je suis allé m'asseoir au sommet d'une montagne et j'ai chanté, pour les Dieux, la chanson que les hommes n'avaient pas comprise. Le soleil se couchait. Au rhythme de ma chanson, les Dieux ont dansé sur les nuages rouges qui flottaient dans le ciel.
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade, poésies chinoises, Paris, L'édition d'art H. Piazza, 1920, pages 130-131.
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I had poured my entire soul into a song which I sang for men, and they laughed! I took up my lute, and went and sat down on a mountaintop and sang, for the Gods, the song that men had not understood. The sun was setting. To the rhythm of my song, the Gods danced upon the red clouds that were floating in the sky.
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This text was added to the website: 2026-04-14
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