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by Henry J.-M. Levet (1874 - 1906)

Outwards
Language: French (Français) 
                     A Francis Jammes

L'Armand-Béhic (des Messageries Maritimes)
File quatorze noeuds sur l'Océan Indien...
Le soleil se couche en des confitures de crimes,
Dans cette mer plate comme avec la main.

-- Miss Roseway, qui se rend à Adelaïde,
Vers le Sweet Home au fiancé australien,
Miss Roseway, hélas, n'a cure de mon spleen;
Sa lorgnette sur les Laquedives, au loin...

-- Je vais me préparer -- sans entrains! -- pour la fête
De ce soir: sur le pont, lampions, danses, romances
(Je dois accompagner miss Roseway qui quête

-- Fort gentiment -- pour les familles des marins
Naufragés!)  Oh, qu'en valse lente, ses reins
A mon bras droit, je l'entraine sans violence

Dans un naufrage où Dieu reconnaîtrait les siens...

Text Authorship:

  • by Henry J.-M. Levet (1874 - 1906), "Outwards", appears in Cartes postales, in Sonnets torrides: Les Voyages (Triptyque), no. 1, first published 1902 [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 Rudolf Escher (1912 - 1980), "Outwards", op. 21 no. 4 (1951), rev. 1961, from Nostalgies, no. 4. [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-02-08
Line count: 16
Word count: 115

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