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by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)

La calamité
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Les feux du bivouac illuminent le ciel. 
La neige alourdit les étendards glacés.
Les cavaliers galopent dans la campagne.
Le général en chef a reçu la tablette d'ivoire 
et pris congé de l'Empereur.
Voici revenu le temps oú le moindre guerrier 
est plus considéré qu'un illustre lettré !
Voici revenu le temps oú les mères 
et les épouses s'endorment, chaque soir, 
le visage tourné vers l'Est !

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•   M. Ponce 

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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1926, page 74.


Text Authorship:

  • by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La calamité", appears in La flûte de jade [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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