Je me rappelle ce matin de Damas et le silence du jardin où tu sommeillais. L'ombre de ton cou était bleue. Tes seins se soulevaient et s'abaissaient avec un rythme de source. Tes bras, à l'abandon, étaient deux ruisseaux d'argent sur l'herbe, et des papillons se posaient sur tes ongles, les prenant pour des roses. A ce moment, dans les Jardins du Paradis, mon père contemplait-il des vierges plus splendides ? Je me suis étendu près de toi, comme un mendiant près d'une mosquée.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le Jardin des Caresses, 73e édition, Paris : L'édition d'art H. Piazza, 1921, p.78
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La mosquée", written 1911?, appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 78, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [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 René Bernier (1905 - 1984), "La Mosquee", published 1924, copyright © 1985 [ voice and piano ], from Poèmes exotiques, no. 3, Brussels: Ed. Bizet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Clergue (1905 - 1971), "La mosquée", 1925, published 1930 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Déré (1886 - 1970), "La mosquée", published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre chants arabes, no. 2, Éd. Maurice Sénart (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Pollet (1883 - 1961), "Sommeil", 1915, published 1918 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants arabes, no. 3, Paris, Éditions Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
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