Trois poèmes chinois

Song Cycle by G. Basilewsky

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

Language: French (Français) 
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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2. Pourtant  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
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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3. La danse des dieux  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
J'avais mis toute mon âme dans une chanson
Que j'ai chanté aux hommes.
Et ils ont ri  . . .
J'ai pris mon luth.
Je suis allé m'asseoir au sommet d'une montagne
Et j'ai chanté [pour les dieux]1 la chanson
Que les hommes n'avaient pas comprise.
Le soleil se couchait au rhythme de ma chanson.
Les dieux ont dansé sur les nuages rouges
Qui flottaient dans le ciel.

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1 omitted by Wertheim

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