Cruel Pierrot | In Cassander's trim, neat head

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by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Pierrot cruel

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Dans le chef poli de Cassandre,
Qui pousse d'affreux cris de paon,
Pierrot enfonce le trépan,
D'un air hypocritement tendre.

Le maryland qu'il vient de prendre,
Sa main sournoise le répand
Dans le chef poli de Cassandre
Qui pousse d'affreux cris de paon.

Il fixe un bout de palissandre
Au crâne, et le blanc sacripant,
A très rouges lèvres pompant,
Fume - en chassant du doigt la cendre -
Dans le chef poli de Cassandre !

Text Authorship:

by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Pierrot cruel", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Gemeinheit", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 ; composed by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Otto Vrieslander.

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Cruel Pierrot", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 73

Cruel Pierrot

Language: English after the French (Français)

In Cassander's trim, neat head
which utters gruesome peacock's cries,
Pierrot drills into his skull
with a hypocritically tender aura.

He has just obtained Maryland tobacco,
which his sly hand now doth spread 
upon Cassander's trim, neat head
which utters gruesome peacock's cries.

He fixes a scrap of rosewood
upon his skull, and the white braggart,
pumping up his very red lips,
Smokes, chasing the ashes with his finger--
Straight into Cassander's trim, neat head!

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a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Pierrot cruel", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
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This text was added to the website: 2018-07-12
Line count: 13
Word count: 75