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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.
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 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, from Calligrammes, no. 5 [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.
Line count: 8
Word count: 35
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.
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.
Bertram Kottmann. Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de
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Based on:
- 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 Lueurs des tirs, first published 1918
This text was added to the website: 2006-03-25
Line count: 8
Word count: 40