by Arthur Waley (1889 - 1969)
Translation © by Jacques Durand (1865 - 1928)
Le Message
Language: French (Français)  after the English
À la rivière, j'ai cueilli des hibiscus
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Text Authorship:
- by Jacques Durand (1865 - 1928), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in English by Arthur Waley (1889 - 1969), no title, appears in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, in Seventeen Old Poems, no. 6
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) possibly by Mei Cheng (d. c140 BCE) [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), "Le Message", published 1928 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Durand
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