Si Némesis m'étend livide, prends la flûte à mon cou dans sa gaine de cuir. Puis cherche un beau platane pour me coucher dessous en terre et quand ce sera fait n'aie cesse ni repos avant d'avoir remis à qui les façonna les précieux pipeaux que mon souffle anima.
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Authorship:
- by Lucien Jacques (1891 - 1961) [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-Émile-Paul Cras (1879 - 1932), "Le retour de la flûte", 1928, published 1930 [ voice, pan-pipes, violin, viola, and violoncello ], from La Flûte de Pan, no. 4, Éd. Maurice Sénart [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting
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