Je m'étais endormi, et je rêvais qu'une caravane exténuée traversait un désert, où je la guidais. Et qu'un fabuleux mirage surgissait devant nous, et que ce mirage était toi-même, avec les lacs de tes yeux et les vergers de ton corps. Et que tu t'élançais vers moi, et que mes compagnons, désespérés, se couchaient pour mourir. Je viens de prononcer ton nom, afin de recommencer ce rêve... Hélas! on ne voit jamais deux fois le même mirage.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, L'édition d'Art H. Piazza, p.19
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Mirage", appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 14, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911 [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 Louis Aubert (1877 - 1968), "Le mirage", 1917, published 1917 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Six poèmes arabes, no. 1, Paris, Édition Durand [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "Mirage", op. 93 no. 8 (1926), published 2020 [ voice and piano ], from Le jardin des caresses, no. 8, Höflich, München [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre Giriat (1886 - 1979), "Le Mirage", op. 4 no. 1, copyright © 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Franz Toussaint, no. 1, Paris : Rouart, Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Abel Nathan , "Le Mirage", published 1930 [ voice and piano ], from Le Jardin des caresses, no. 2, Paris : L. Philippo [sung text not yet checked]
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