Le manège à vapeur regarde s'en aller Interminablement le paquebot "Touraine" Il donnerait tout l'or de sa gloire foraine Pour défaire sur l'eau son voyage enroulé.
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Text Authorship:
- by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) [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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Fête de Bordeaux", op. 59 no. 2, copyright © 1920, first performed 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Jean Cocteau, no. 2, Paris : Éditions Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The Festival in Bordeaux ", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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