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[Des jeunes filles cueillent des nénuphars sur les bords du Jo-Yeh.]1 Parmi les bambous, elles s'interpellent et se cachent en riant. L'eau réfléchit leurs belles robes, qui parfument la brise. Des cavaliers passent entre les saules de la rive... Un des chevaux hennit. Son maître regarde en vain de tous [côtés et puis]2 s'éloigne. [Une]3 des jeunes filles laisse tomber ses nénuphars et comprime son cœur qui bat à grands coups.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1920, page 70.
1 Badings: "Sur les bords du Jo-Yeh,/ des jeunes filles cueillent des nénuphars."; Wertheim: "Des jeunes filles cueillent des nénuphars/ sur les bords du Jo-Jeh"2 Wertheim: "côtés - puis"
3 Badings: "Sur les bords du Jo-Yeh une"
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Sur les bords du Jo-Yeh", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "采莲曲"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Henk Badings (1907 - 1987), "Sur les bords du Jo-Yeh", from Chansons orientales, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rosalie Marie Wertheim (1888 - 1949), "Sur les bords du Jo-Jeh", 1939 [ soprano, flute and harp or piano ], from Trois Chansons pour soprano, flûte et harpe, no. 3, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "On the Banks of the Jo-Yeh", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "An den Ufern des Jo-yeh", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-06
Line count: 13
Word count: 74
An den Ufern des Jo-yeh pflücken Mädchen Seerosen. Im Bambusdickicht rufen sie sich etwas zu, verstecken sich und scherzen. Das Wasser spiegelt ihre schönen Kleider, die den leichten Wind mit Wohlgeruch erfüllen. Reiter tauchen zwischen den Uferweiden auf … Eines der Pferde wiehert. Sein Reiter blickt umsonst nach allen Seiten und zieht dann weiter. An den Ufern des Jo-yeh lässt eins der Mädchen seine Blüten fallen und fasst sich ans Herz, das heftig schlägt.
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- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Sur les bords du Jo-Yeh", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "采莲曲"
This text was added to the website: 2015-09-22
Line count: 13
Word count: 74