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Cette nuit, il neigeait dans le jardin Liang. J’avais froid, et tu ne t’en doutais pas. Je regardais les arbres de jade sous lesquels, autrefois, je t’attendais.
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1922, page 33.
Note: later editions have the following changes to the text:
Line 3 is "Je regardais les grands arbres"
There is a second stanza as follows:
Toute cette neige qui tombait sur notre passé…
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This text was added to the website: 2020-10-14
Line count: 4
Word count: 27
That night, it was snowing in the garden of Liang. I was cold, and you didn't suspect it. I looked at the trees of jade under which I once used to wait for you.
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This text was added to the website: 2026-04-24
Line count: 4
Word count: 34
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