En files noirs, des oies sauvages traversent le ciel. On voit, dans les arbres, des nids abandonnés. Les montagnes semblent plus lourdes. J'ai trouvé près de ma fontaine, la flûte de jade que tu avais perdue, cet été. L'herbe haute l'avait soustraite à nos recherches. Mais l'herbe est morte, et la flûte brillait au soleil, ce soir. J'ai pensé à notre amour, qui est resté si longtemps enseveli sous nos scrupules.
L. Delune sets stanzas 2-3
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Je me promenais", 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 Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Julián Bautista (1901 - 1961), "Je me promenais", op. 2 no. 1 (1921) [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Therèse Brenet (b. 1935), "Je me promenais", copyright © 2008 [ baritone, flute and piano ], from Poème de Jade, no. 1, Editions de la Fabrique Musique [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Delune (1876 - 1940), "La Flûte de jade", 1922, published 1924, stanzas 2-3 [ medium voice, piano, flute ad libitum ], from Le Collier des offrandes, six poèmes lyriques d'après des poésies chinoises, no. 1, Paris, Éditions Hérelle, Fortemps, & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacqueline Despas (b. 1893), "Je me promenais", published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Chinois Extraits de La Flûte de jade, no. 1, Éd. Jean Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "Je me promenais", op. 36 no. 1 (1925-1926), published [1927] [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade: Sept Poésies chinoises traduites par Franz Toussaint, no. 1, London, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (1888 - 1969), "La flûte de jade", 1922 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Gertrude Laughlin Joerissen) , "The lost flute", appears in The Lost Flute and Other Chinese Lyrics, no. 1
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2014-06-08
Line count: 14
Word count: 71
In long black lines the wild geese cross the sky. In the trees one sees the deserted nests. Winter heaviness seems to have settled upon the mountains. Close to my fountain I found your flute of jade which you lost last summer. The tall grass had screened it from our searching. But now the grass is dead and the flute lay glistening in the sun. I have been thinking of our love which has lain so long buried under our scruples.
Confirmed with Gertrude Laughlin Joerissen, The lost Flute; and other Chinese lyrics, London : T. Fischer, 1923, p. 1. Note: this is a prose text.
Text Authorship:
- by Gertrude Laughlin Joerissen (1881 - 1933), "The lost flute", appears in The Lost Flute and Other Chinese Lyrics, no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Je me promenais", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2024-11-06
Line count: 14
Word count: 81