J’avais relevé les lourds rideaux afin d’admirer la lune brillante Et j’étais appuyée sur la balustrade face au vent d’ouest L’haleine de la nuit m’arrivait tout impregnée des senteurs troublantes La jade rosé du fleuve envahissait à l’horizon le jade vert du vide. Au pied des herbes, chantait le grillon Tandis qu’au delà du ciel retentissaient les cris des cigognes invisibles Les souvenirs du temps passé me reviennent et me reviennent toujours Et, ce soir encore, personne n’est là pour partager mes pensées.
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Text Authorship:
- by George Soulié de Morant (1878 - 1955), appears in Florilège des poèmes Song, 960-1277 après J.-C., Paris, Éd. Plon-Nourrit, first published 1923 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Tchou Chou-Tchenn (flourished 12th century) [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 Rodolphe Théophile Cahen d'Anvers, marquis de Torre Alfina , as Armand Bolsène, "Assise, seule", published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Poèmes chinois de l'époque Song, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text checked 1 time]
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