L’essaim des étoiles vole autour de la ruche rouge de la lune pour piller son rose miel nocturne. Dans la fourmilière bleue du ciel fourmis blanches d’étoiles remuent pour manger, miette à miette, la lune. La pleine lune, rond blutoir blanc; à l’horizon à perte de vue, l’amazone, un désert de farine. Au clair de la lune, ma viole, et sans qu’un seul de mes doigts la frôle, tout bas se met à gémir, je jure. Doux, tout doux, pour répondre à la voix de l’inhabú qui pleure, qui pleure, dans la bouche triste de la nuit, Jusqu’à ce que sa douleur expire doucement, comme un colibri meurt, s’évanouit un rêve de fleur.
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Confirmed with Paul Palgen, Guanabara, la baie aux trois cents soixante îles, Marseille, Les Cahiers du Sud, 1933, p. 63.
Authorship:
- by Paul Palgen (1883 - 1966), "Chanson lunaire à la façon de Catullo de Paixao Cearense", appears in Guanabara, la baie aux trois cents soixante îles, first published 1933 [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 Lou Koster (1889 - 1973), "Chanson lunaire", published [1936] [ medium voice and piano ], Bruxelles, Éd. Fernand Lauweryns [sung text checked 1 time]
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