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by Marius Dillard

Rondel chinois
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Sur le lac bordé d'azalée
De nénuphar et de bambou
Passe une jonque d'acajou
A la pointe effilée.

Une Chinoise dort voilée
D'un flot de crèpe jusqu'au cou.
Sur le lac bordé d'azalée,
De nénuphar et de bambou.

Sous sa véranda dentelée
Un mandarin se tient debout
Fixant de ses yeux de hibou
La dame qui passe isolée
Sur le lac bordé d'azalée.

Text Authorship:

  • by Marius Dillard  [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Rondel chinois", L. 11/(17) (1881) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Rondel on a Chinese scene", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Peter Low [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-04-03
Line count: 13
Word count: 63

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