Les fées qui ont des cœurs de roses Et les fous qui ont des cœurs de soie A la ronde s'assoient, A la ronde se reposent. Prennent pour cavaliers les fous Les fous qui ont des grelots d'or et des lunes A leurs chapeaux à plumes, Les fous qui sont fous comme vous. Prennent pour amoureuses les fées Les fées malicieuses Qui ce matin se sont coiffées De la rosée des yeuses. Et s'en vont la ronde déclose Et s'en vont les cœurs de soie A l'ombre argentée des bois Conter fleurette aux cœurs des roses.
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Confirmed with Tristan Klingsor, Poèmes de Bohême, Société du Mercure de France, Paris, 1913, pages 199-200.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Ronde", appears in Poèmes de Bohême, in 4. Poèmes de Bohême, no. 15, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1913 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Georges Antoine (1892 - 1918), "Ronde", op. 7 no. 1, published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Album de six mélodies, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
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