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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Ô toi, centre du jeu
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Ô toi, centre du jeu
où l'on perd quand on gagne;
célèbre comme Charlemagne,
roi, empereur et Dieu, -

tu es aussi le mendiant
en pitoyable posture,
et c'est ta multiple figure
qui te rend puissant. -

Tout ceci serait pour le mieux;
mais tu es, en nous (c'est pire)
comme le noir milieu
d'un châle brodé de cachemire.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, in Éros, no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Raffaele d'Alessandro (1911 - 1959), "O toi, centre du jeu", op. 15 no. 1 (1937) [ voice and piano ], from Éros. Quatre mélodies récitées, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-10-14
Line count: 12
Word count: 57

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