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 sur son épaule, A battu des ailes et puis s'est envolé. Longuement je l'ai suivi des yeux. 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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View text with all available footnotesText Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Notre bateau glisse", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [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 G. Basilewsky , "Notre bateau glisse", op. 18 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes chinois, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Bled , "Notre bateau glisse", 1945 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Delune (1876 - 1940), "Notre bateau glisse", 1922, published 1924 [ medium voice, piano, flute ad libitum ], from Le Collier des offrandes, six poèmes lyriques d'après des poésies chinoises, no. 3, Paris, Éditions Hérelle, Fortemps, & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacqueline Despas (b. 1893), "Notre bateau glisse", published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Chinois Extraits de La Flûte de jade, no. 2, Éd. Jean Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marius-François Gaillard (1900 - 1973), "Notre bateau glisse", 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies chinoises, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "Notre bateau glisse", op. 36 no. 2 (1925-1926), published [1927] [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade: Sept Poésies chinoises traduites par Franz Toussaint, no. 2, London, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "Notre bateau glisse", 1917, published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre poèmes chinois extraits de La Flûte de Jade de Franz Toussaint, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Maurice Sénart [sung text checked 1 time]
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