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Short Course in Morals
Song Cycle by Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)
View original-language texts alone: Petit cours de morale
Dans Londres, la grand ville il est un être plus seul qu'un naufragé dans son île et qu'un mort dans un linceul Grand badaud petit rentier Jeanne voilà son métier.
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- by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), no title, written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921
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In the great City of London lives someone who is more alone than a shipwrecked man or a shrouded corpse. He lives on a small private income, Jeanne, and his trade is that of spectator.
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2002 by Faith J. Cormier, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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A Douvres un original tombe un jour dans le chenal il appelle au sauvetage Il se cramponne au récif mais vers lui nul coeur ne nage Adèle, ainsi meur l'oisif.
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- by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921
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An eccentric young idler from Dover, Walked along the White Cliffs and fell over. Alone he met grief, Forlorn on a reef, This eccentric young idler from Dover.
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Le grandchinois de Lancastre vous attire avec des fleurs puis vous inonde d'odeurs... bientôt sa pipe est votre astre! Du lys au pavot, Cécile, la route, hélas, est docile.
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- by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921
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The grand Chinaman1 of Lancaster attracts you with flowers and buries you in scents. Soon his pipe is your morning star! Unfortunately, Cécile, it's only a short hop from the lily to the poppy.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Translator's note: "I realize "Chinaman" is not a very polite term, but I'm not at all sure what else fits in with the era of the original. "Chinese gentleman" sounds a little odd for the owner of an opium den, no matter in what era."
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Le Lord prévôt d'Edimbourg Dit que l'amour est chimère Mais un jour il perd sa mère Ses larmes coulent toujours Irène petite Irène l'Amour c'est la grande peine.
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- by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, first published 1922
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The Lord Provost of Edinburg always said that love was an illusion, until the day he lost his mother. He is weeping still. Irène, my little Irène, Love is terrible sorrow.
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Qu'as-tu vu dans ton exil? Disait à Spencer sa femme, à Rome, à Vienne, à Pergame, à Calcutta? Rien! fit-il Veux-tu découvrir le monde? Ferme tes yeux, Rosemonde.
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- by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921
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Spencer's wife asked him what he had seen during his exile in Rome, Vienna, Pergamo and Calcutta. "Nothing," he replied. If you want to see the world, close your eyes, Rosemonde.
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2002 by Faith J. Cormier, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in French (Français) by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921
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Word count: 32