Des garçons en tricots rayées
poussent les vagues.
Est-ce un orage ?
Tout roucoule
Et la baigneuse
Consulte le miroir des cieux.
Valse, calèches d'émeraude.
Comme un rosier gonfle ses joues,
encore un tour de manège.
Le printemps
au fond de la mer.
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Text Authorship:
- by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), "Sobre las olas", written 1920, appears in Poésies 1917-1920 [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 Maurice Delage (1879 - 1961), "Sobre las olas", op. 15 (1924), published 1927 [ medium voice and piano ], Édition Jobert [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Eric Bauer
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