Parmi les fleurs qui bordent la fontaine, Laquelle cueillerez-vous, ô bien aimée, La marguerite ou la marjolaine Ou la rose encor fermée ? Parmi les fleurs au bord de la margelle Quelle fée ou quel fou viendra s'asseoir, Pierrot ou Urgèle, En dentelles d'argent fin, ce soir ? Ni Pierrot fou, ni fée Urgèle, Ni la marguerite, ni la marjolaine, Mais toi, bien aimée, au bord de la margelle Comme une rose plus grande et plus légère Parmi les roses qui bordent la fontaine.
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Confirmed with Tristan Klingsor, Poèmes de Bohême, Société du Mercure de France, Paris, 1913, pages 205-206.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "À la fontaine", appears in Poèmes de Bohême, in 4. Poèmes de Bohême, no. 18, 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 Louis Beydts (1896 - 1953), "À la fontaine", published 1928 [ high voice and piano ], from Cinq Humoresques sur des poésies de Tristan Klingsor, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
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