Venez ! Autour de ma de demeure chante un ruiseau qui est gai comme le printemps. Vous verrez peut-être des mouettes, si le vent se lève. Comme je ne reçois jamais personne, je ne fais pas balayer les allées de mon jardin. Vous marcherez sur un tapis de feuilles. Vous m'excuserez de vous offrir un déjeuner modeste, [car] le marché est très éloigné. Croyez que je m'efforcerai de vous dire des des choses agréables pour compenser la rusticité de ma table Vous hésitez ? Vous craignez de me déranger ? Nous allons boire quand même ensemble... et nous trinquerons par-dessus la haie.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade, Paris : H. Piazza, 1922, p.48
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Invitation", appears in La flûte de jade [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Karel Goeyvaerts , "Invitation", 1949 [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de Jade, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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