Pour dormir, elle s'était roulée dans ce voile où un artiste a peint les présents de l'été. Des fruits multicolores la drapaient toute, et je pensais aux barques qui emportent sur le fleuve les trésors de nos vergers.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le Jardin des Caresses; Quatrième serie, in: La Revue de Paris, Bureaux De La Revue De Paris, 1911-05-01
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le Voile peint", appears in Le jardin des caresses [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 Vincenzo Tommasini (1878 - 1950), "Le voile peint", 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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