Green rushes with red shoots, Long leaves bending to the wind -- You and I in the same boat Plucking rushes at the Five Lakes. We started at dawn from the orchid-island; We rested under the elms till noon. You and I plucking rushes Had not plucked a handful when night came!
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Confirmed with Arthur Waley, Chinese Poems, Dover Publications, 2000, page 109, an unabridged republication of the work published in 1946 in London by George Allen and Unwin.
Authorship:
- by Arthur Waley (1889 - 1969), "Plucking the rushes", subtitle: "A boy and girl are sent to gather rushes for thatching" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) 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 Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Plucking rushes", published 1922 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from the Chinese, no. 5, Éd. Durand, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893 - 1976), "Plucking the rushes", 1921, published 1922 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by L. Lemierre ; composed by Blair Fairchild.
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