La lune peut
Sur la soie bleue
Du soir
Mettre son masque d'or
Et la comète perdre sa queue,
Qu'importe?
Cette fille peut rire plus fort
Sur la route ;
Ce garçon peut retourner boire
Et celui-là qui les écoute
Peut pleurer tout bas derrière ma porte :
Qu'importe?
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Confirmed with Tristan Klingsor, Poèmes de Bohême, Société du Mercure de France, Paris, 1913, pages 197-198.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Chanson à la lune", appears in Poèmes de Bohême, in 4. Poèmes de Bohême, no. 14, 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 René Camille Henri Berthelot (1903 - 1999), "Qu'importe ?", published 1982 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons galantes et romanesques - 2ème cahier, no. 2, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "La soie bleue", first performed 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons sous l'organdi, no. 2, Éd. Rouart - Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
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