Assise sur la terrasse de sa demeure, elle attend son fiancé. 
Que la nuit a été longue ! 

Le vent du matin effeuille les glycines. 

Elle regarde ces gouttes d'aube 
qui tombent sur ses bras, et elle soupire.

Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade; poésies chinoises, Piazza, 1926, p.117.

Text Authorship:

• by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La tristesse précieuse", appears in La flûte de jade, first published 1926 [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 Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme (1905 - 1982), "La tristesse précieuse", op. 67 no. 2, op. 62 (1930) [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from La flûte de Jade, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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