Der entschwundene Zauber | Schwinde, schwinde mein Regenbogen

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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

La Grâce exilée

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER GER

Va-t-'en va-t'en mon arc-en-ciel
Allez-vous-en couleurs charmantes
Cet exil t'est essentiel
Infante aux écharpes changeantes.

Et l'arc-en-ciel est exilé
Puisqu'on exile qui l'irise
Mais un drapeau s'est envolé
Prendre ta place au vent de bise.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La Grâce exilée", appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 4. Lueurs des tirs, first published 1918 [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "La Grâce exilée", FP 140 no. 5 (1948), published 1948 [ baritone and piano ], from Calligrammes, no. 5, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Grace in exile", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der entschwundene Zauber", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Die entschwundene Anmut", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 35

Der entschwundene Zauber

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Schwinde, schwinde mein Regenbogen,
verschwebt, zaubrische Farben.
Dieses gehen ist dir eigen,
Infant mit den irisierenden schärpen.

Und der Regenbogen entschwand,
weil das ging, was ihm seine schillernden Farben gab;
indes ist eine Fahne aufgeflogen,
deinen Platz im Eiswind einzunehmen.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2006 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La Grâce exilée", appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 4. Lueurs des tirs, first published 1918
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This text was added to the website: 2006-03-25
Line count: 8
Word count: 40