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by Jean Sasse

Les flamants
Language: French (Français) 
Les flamants roses dorment
sur la pelouse à l'ombre
des grands ormes.
Ils dorment dans leur pose éternelle
Sur une patte
rose toute droite
Et jamais ne remuent
La tête sous l'aile se perd sous les plumes
Et leur cou si frêle est couleur d'écume.
On jurerait un étalage ravissant
De petits chapeaux dix neuf cent
Les flamants roses dorment
à l'ombre des grands ormes.
(Serait elle en retard?)
Tels qu'on en croise en rue
J'ai tout l'air d'un flamant
Faisant le pied de grue.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean Sasse  [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 Jean Absil (1893 - 1974), "Les flamants", op. 63 no. 6 (1944), published 1964 [SATB quartet a cappella], from Zoo. Sept pièces pour quatuor vocal "a cappella" sur des poems de Jean Sasse (SATB), no. 6, Paris : Henry Lemoine & Cie. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-12
Line count: 17
Word count: 85

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