Cinq Poèmes de Franz Toussaint

by Odette Gartenlaub (1922 - 2014)

1. Le Héron blanc  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Ce grand flocon de neige était un héron,
qui vient de se poser sur le lac bleu.
Immobile á l'extrémité d'un banc de sable,
le héron blanc regarde l'Hiver.

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2. Ngo Gay Ngy  [sung text not yet checked]

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Comme la lune dans le ciel bleu,
je suis seule dans ma chambre.
J'ai éteint la lampe, je pleure.
Je pleure parce que vous êtes loin de moi
et que vous ne saurez jamais
combien je vous aime.

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3. Nocturne  [sung text not yet checked]

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Nonchalante, son luth a la main, elle roulait le rideau de
Perles a fin que'  l'odeur du printemps inondât sa chambre
 
Mais elle a vu la lune et' c'est le chagrin qui est entrée
 
Le visage dans son bras replie, elle évoque un jardin bleui
De lune ou elle entendit jadis des paroles d'amour

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4. Évocation  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
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. Pluie de printemps  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Elle est venue ranimer les jardins,
la bonne petite pluie qui sait toujours quand la nature a besoin d'elle.
Discrète, appliquée, silencieuse, elle a mouillé toutes choses, finement.

Hier soir, des nuages avaient envahi le ciel. L'obscurité était effrayante . 
Comme d’immenses yeux de fauves, les fanals des barques luisaient.

Ce matin, dans une pure lumière, éclatent les couleurs du jardin bien lavé.
Je contemple ses fleurs, qui me font évoquer le parc impérial
où je me promenais, jadis.

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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade ; poésies chinoises, Paris : Piazza, 1926, p.107


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