Vieil escamoteur
A baguette de regardeur d'étoiles,
A bonnet pointu de docteur,
Que caches-tu dans ta manche de toile ?
Est-ce une bille de couleur,
Est-ce un oiseau bleu,
Est-ce un bouquet de fleurs.
Pour faire quelque tour miraculeux ?
Vieil escamoteur de cartes,
Batteur d'omelettes dans un chapeau,
Que caches-tu dans la manche que tu écartes
De ton habit cousu d'oripeaux ?
Une, deux, trois, quatre, houp ! houp !...
Écarquillez vos yeux de vos doigts potelés
Cendrillon, Pierrot ou Riquet à la Houppe :
Le sabre de Polichinelle est avalé.
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Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "L'escamoteur", written 1897-1899, appears in Le valet de cœur: poèmes, in 1. L'escarpolette, no. 20, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1908 [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 Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "L'escamoteur", 1921 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Quatre poèmes de Tristan Klingsor, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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