美的事物 | 在一片雪景之前，一項美的事物高高矗立著

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by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)

Translation © by Yen-Chiang Che

Being beauteous

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG JPN SPA

Devant une neige un Être de Beauté de haute taille.
Des  sifflements de mort et  des cercles de musique
sourde font monter,  s'élargir et trembler comme un
spectre ce corps adoré :  des blessures écarlates et
noires  éclatent  dans  les  chairs superbes.  Les 
couleurs propres de la vie se foncent,  dansent, et
se  dégagent autour de la Vision,  sur le chantier.
Et  les  frissons  s'élèvent  et  grondent,  et  la
saveur  forcenée de  ces  effets se chargeant  avec
les  sifflements  mortels  et les rauques  musiques
que le monde,  loin derrière nous,  lance sur notre
mère de beauté,  - elle recule, elle se dresse. Oh !
nos os sont revêtus d'un nouveau corps amoureux.

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Ô la face cendrée,  l'écusson de crin,  les bras de
cristal !  Le canon  sur lequel  je dois m'abattre à
travers la mêlée des arbres et de l'air léger !

Confirmed with Monographie imprimée (Paris), 1886

Text Authorship:

by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Being beauteous", appears in Les Illuminations [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 (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Being beauteous", op. 18 no. 7 (1939), published 1940 [ high voice and strings ], from Les Illuminations, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012), "Being beauteous", 1963, copyright © 1964 [ coloratura soprano, harp, and 4 cellos ], Mainz, Schott ; New York, Associated [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "美的事物", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Ahmed E. Ismail) , "Being Beauteous", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , "美しくあること", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (José Miguel Llata) , "Being beauteous (Ser de Belleza)", copyright © 2014, (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: 17
Word count: 145

美的事物

Language: Chinese (中文) after the French (Français)

在一片雪景之前，一項美的事物高高矗立著
死的呼嘯聲　和一圈圈若隱若現的音樂
使這具令人喜愛的身軀挺立　變大
並且像個鬼魂顫抖著；鮮紅與黑色的傷口
從絕美的肌肉中爆出
生命的色彩變深、跳著舞
並且在工地上　從幻象的周圍迸發而出
抖動變得劇烈　而且開始嘷叫
發出瘋狂的味道　發出垂死的呼號
還有沙啞的音樂　讓這個世界
那在我們身後的遙遠世界　猛力投向
我們的美麗之母　她退卻　她豎立著
哦！我們的骨頭
重新鋪上一件新的、愛情的身體
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哦！鉛灰的臉龐　毛髮的徽章
水晶般的臂膀
根據規定　這時我必須讓我自己倒下
躺在混亂的樹林裏　和輕盈的微風中

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to Chinese (中文) copyright © 2009 by Yen-Chiang Che, (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 Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Being beauteous", appears in Les Illuminations
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This text was added to the website: 2009-06-11
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Word count: 38