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Poèmes exotiques

Song Cycle by René Bernier (1905 - 1984)

1. Evocation  [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.

Text Authorship:

  • by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Évocation", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920

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  • a text in Chinese (中文) by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [text unavailable]
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2. Dialogue dans la nuit  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Un soir que je respirais le parfum des fleurs 
Au bord de la rivière,
Le vent m'apporta la chanson d'une flûte lointaine.
Pour lui répondre, je coupai une branche de saule,
Et la chanson de ma flûte berça la nuit charmée.
Depuis ce soir-là, tous les jours, 
À l'heure où la campagne s'endort,
Les oiseaux entendent répondre [à leur chant, 
Celui d'un oiseau inconnu]1
Dont ils comprennent cependant le langage.

Text Authorship:

  • by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Les deux flûtes" [an adaptation]

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  • a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "春夜洛城闻笛"
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1 Ponce and Wertheim: "deux oiseaux/ Inconnus"

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3. La Mosquee  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Je me rappelle ce matin de Damas 
et le silence du jardin où tu sommeillais. 
L'ombre de ton cou était bleue. 
Tes seins se soulevaient 
et s'abaissaient avec un rythme de source. 
Tes bras, à l'abandon, étaient deux ruisseaux
d'argent sur l'herbe, et des papillons se posaient sur tes ongles, 
les prenant pour des roses. 
A ce moment, dans les Jardins du
Paradis, mon père contemplait-il des
vierges plus splendides ?
Je me suis étendu près de toi, 
comme un mendiant près d'une mosquée. 

Text Authorship:

  • by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La mosquée", written 1911?, appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 78, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911

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  • a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist  [text unavailable]
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le Jardin des Caresses, 73e édition, Paris : L'édition d'art H. Piazza, 1921, p.78


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