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by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)

Allez ! on préviendra les reflux...
Language: French (Français) 
Allez ! on préviendra les reflux d'incendie,
voilà les quais, voilà les boulevards, voilà
les maisons sur l'azur léger qui s'irradie
et qu'un soir la rougeur des bombes étoila !

Cachez les palais morts dans des niches de planches !
L'ancient jour effaré rafraîchit vos regards.
Voici le troupeau roux des tordeuses de hanches :
soyez fous, vous serez drôles, étant hagards !

O coeurs de saleté, bouches épouvantables,
fonctionnez plus fort, bouches de puanteurs !
Un vin pour ces torpeurs ignobles, sur ces tables...
Vos ventres sont fondus de hontes, ô Vainqueurs!

Ouvrez votre narine aux superbes nausées !

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Text Authorship:

  • by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891) [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 Michael Nyman (b. 1944), "Allez ! on préviendra les reflux d'incendie", alternate title: "Allez ! on préviendra les reflux d'incendie", from L'orgie Parisienne ou Paris se Repeuple, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 93

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