À l'ombre aiguë du cyprès, mes deux lévriers dorment, comme des flèches dans un carquois. Referme doucement la porte, et viens les caresser : ta main fera passer dans leurs rêves la fraîcheur d'un ruisseau du Liban.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, L'édition d'Art H. Piazza, p.30
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le sommeil des lévriers", appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 26, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [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 Alfred Cozanet (1870 - 1938), as Jean d'Udine, "Les lévriers", published 1929 [ high voice and piano ], from Sept poèmes arabes extraits du Jardin des Caresses de Franz Toussaint, no. 2, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacqueline Despas (b. 1893), "Le sommeil des lévriers", published 1923 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Arabes, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "Le sommeil des lévriers", op. 93 no. 4 (1926), published 2020 [ voice and piano ], from Le jardin des caresses, no. 4, Höflich, München [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sylvain Vouillement (1910 - 1995), "Le sommeil des lévriers" [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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