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Tu as laissé tomber dans la poussière la tulipe rouge que je t'avais donnée. Je l'ai ramassée. Elle était devenue blanche. En ce bref instant, il avait neigé sur notre amour.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1920, page 23.
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La dernière promenade", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [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 Henk Badings (1907 - 1987), "Dernière promenade", 1943, published 1960 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons orientales, no. 3, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme (1905 - 1982), "La dernière promenade", op. 67 no. 4 (1931) [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from La flûte de Jade, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marguerite Marsat , "Dernière promenade", published 1932 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 2, Paris : éditions Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "La dernière promenade", op. 36 no. 3 (1925-1926), published [1927] [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade: Sept Poésies chinoises traduites par Franz Toussaint, no. 3, London, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Catherine d'Ollone, née Catherine de Pontière (1882 - 1954), "La dernière promenade", published 1928? [ low voice and piano ], from La Flûte de Jade, no. 1, Éd. Maurice Senart (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yves Ramette (1921 - 2012), "La dernière promenade", op. 17 no. 2 (1960) [ voice and piano ], from La Flûte de jade, no. 2
Publisher: https://webshop.donemus.com/action/front/sheetmusic/20684/La+flûte+de+jade [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Louis Delune (1876 - 1940), "Ngo gay ngy", 1922, published 1924 [ medium voice, piano, flute ad libitum ], from Le Collier des offrandes, six poèmes lyriques d'après des poésies chinoises, no. 6, Paris, Éditions Hérelle, Fortemps, & Cie
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-06
Line count: 5
Word count: 31
You dropped in the dust the red tulip I'd given you. I picked it back up. It had become white. In that brief instant, it had snowed on our love.
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Translations of titles:
"Dernière promenade" = "Last Stroll"
"La dernière promenade" = "The Last Stroll"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2026 by Grant Hicks, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La dernière promenade", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2026-04-07
Line count: 5
Word count: 30