Poèmes Chinois Extraits de La Flûte de jade

by Jacqueline Despas (b. 1893)

1. Je me promenais  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
En files noirs, 
des oies sauvages traversent le ciel. 
On voit, dans les arbres, 
des nids abandonnés. 
Les montagnes semblent plus lourdes. 

J'ai trouvé près de ma fontaine, 
la flûte de jade 
que tu avais perdue, cet été. 
L'herbe haute l'avait soustraite à nos recherches. 

Mais l'herbe est morte, 
et la flûte brillait au soleil, ce soir. 
J'ai pensé à notre amour, 
qui est resté si longtemps 
enseveli sous nos scrupules.

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2. Notre bateau glisse  [sung text not yet checked]

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Notre bateau glisse sur le fleuve calme.
Au-delà du verger qui borde la rive,
Je regarde les montagnes bleues et les nuages blancs.

Mon amie sommeille, la main dans l'eau,
Un papillon s'est [glissé]1 sur son épaule,
A battu des ailes [et]2 puis s'est envolé.

[Longuement je l'ai suivi des yeux]3.
Il se dirigeait vers les montagnes de Tchang-nân.

Était-ce un papillon, ou le rêve que venait de faire mon amie ?

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1 Moulaert: "posé"
2 omitted by Moulaert.
3 Moulaert: "Je l'ai suivi des yeux, longtemps"

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3. Pourtant ...  [sung text not yet checked]

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Cette promesse que vous m'aviez faite, sous l'acacia en fleurs, 
hier soir ? 
Mais, où est la rosée qui alourdissait les fleurs de l'acacia ?

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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade ; poésies chinoises, Paris : Piazza, 1926, p.71


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4. Évocation  [sung text not yet checked]

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Rapide, ma barque file,
Je contemple le fleuve.
Des nuages errent dans le ciel.
L'eau est aussi de la nuit claire.
Quand un nuage glisse sur la lune,
Je le vois glisser aussi sur le fleuve
Et il me semble que je vogue en plein ciel.
Je pense à ma bien aimée,
qui se mire ainsi dans mon cœur.

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5. Vœu  [sung text not yet checked]

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Nuit tiède, clair de lune, parfum des pruniers, 
donnez à ma bienaimée un rêve délicieux ! 
Faites qu'elle soit impatiente de me revoir et, 
qu'à l'aurore , elle vienne frapper à ma porte !

Parfum des pruniers, clair de lune, nuit tiède,
je saurai, par ses baisers, si vous m’avez entendu.

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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade ; poésies chinoises, Paris : Piazza, 1926, p.110


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