La gazelle blessée pleure lorsqu'elle va mourir Lorsqu'une torche va s'éteindre , sa flamme devient paisible . Et toi , à quel moment as - tu conscience de ton destin ? Est-ce quand tu pleures , est-ce quand tu souris ?
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, Paris : H. Piazza, 1919, p.33
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Sur la mort", appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 32, Paris, Éd. Piazza [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 Denise Aignerelle-Féru (b. 1933), "La gazelle blessée" [ voice and piano ], from Le jardin des caresses, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacqueline Despas (b. 1893), "Sur la mort", published 1923 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Arabes, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
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