The Festival in Bordeaux | The steam tugboat regards the progress

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by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Fête de Bordeaux

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Le manège à vapeur regarde s'en aller 
Interminablement le paquebot "Touraine" 
Il donnerait tout l'or de sa gloire foraine 
Pour défaire sur l'eau son voyage enroulé.

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Text Authorship:

by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) [author's text not yet checked 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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Fête de Bordeaux", op. 59 no. 2, copyright © 1920, first performed 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Jean Cocteau, no. 2, Paris : Éditions Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The Festival in Bordeaux ", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 26

The Festival in Bordeaux

Language: English after the French (Français)

The steam tugboat regards the progress
of the interminably slow barge “Touraine”
It would give all the gold of its open air glory 
To undo its coiled watery journey.

Translator's notes:
Line 3: "open air" - as in, an open air fairground environment
Line 4: "coiled" - tied down, i.e. connected to other ships

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a text in French (Français) by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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This text was added to the website: 2016-04-14
Line count: 4
Word count: 29