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by Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (1822 - 1869)

Allez au pays de Chine
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Allez au pays de Chine,
Et sur ma table apportez
Le papier de paille fine
Plein de reflets argentés !

Pour encre et pour écritoire,
Allez prendre à l'Alhambra
Le sang d'une mûre noire
Et l'écorce d'un cédrat !

Au fond des vertes savanes
Où l'oiseau pousse son cri,
Ramassez dans les lianes
La plume d'un colibri !

Puis, pour sécher l'écriture,
Par les près et les sillons
Recueillez la poudre pure
Qui tombe des papillons !

— Alors, de ma main fidèle
Peut-ètre oserai-je, un jour,
Tracer le doux nom de celle
Qui me fait languir d'amour.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Hignard •   C. Koechlin 

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Confirmed with Louis Bouilhet, Poésies: festons et astragales, Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1859, Pages 37-38.


Text Authorship:

  • by Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (1822 - 1869), "Chanson d'amour", appears in Festons et astragales, Paris, Éd. Librairie nouvelle, first published 1859 [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-Louis Aristide Hignard (1822 - 1897), "Madrigal", published [1884] [ medium voice and piano ], from Rimes et mélodies, série III, no. 21, Paris, Éditions Louis Gregh et Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Chanson d'amour", op. 5 (Cinq mélodies) no. 3 (1893-97) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Omer Letorey (1873 - 1938), "Allez au pays de Chine", published [1913] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Adam Ewing) , "Love song", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Adam Ewing

This text was added to the website: 2012-04-02
Line count: 20
Word count: 97

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