Je n'ai ni turban vert très lourd, Ni veste brodée de fils tors, Ni même, quand je m'asseois, Des coussins et un divan de velours Sous mes culottes de soie ; Je n'ai ni mule, ni riches harnais de cuir fauve, Ni eunuques à grêle voix d'or, Ni houris en voiles fins cachant le nez, Car je ne suis en somme qu'un poète pauvre Et pour toute fortune je n'ai Qu'une longue barbe parfumée de santal, Divisée en forme de cornets, Et qu'un petit chapeau pointu comme un bonnet De vieil astrologue oriental.
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Confirmed with Tristan Klingsor, Schéhérazade, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, 1903, pages 62-63.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Le chapeau pointu", written 1903, appears in Schéhérazade, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1903 [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 Jean Cartan (1906 - 1932), "Le chapeau pointu", 1926, published 1927 [ voice and piano or flute, harp, and string quartet ], from Cinq Poèmes de Tristan Klingsor, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
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