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by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor

L'escamoteur
Language: French (Français) 
  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.

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]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-03-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 87

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