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by Stéphan Bordèse (1847 - 1919)

Translation © by Lidy van Noordenburg

L'abeille

Language: French (Français) after the English

Our translations: DUT

En bourdonnant de fleur en fleur
L'intelligent abeille
Va prendre le suc dans le cœur
De la rose vermeille.
En bourdonnant sous le ciel blue
Et doucement lui fait l'aveu
Se cret de sa tendresse.
L'abeille la caresse.
 
Vole, Voici le printemps
Vole, La rose t'attend.
 
Et la fleur cache son secret
Dans sa frêle corolle,
Mais survient le vent indiscret
Qui sans pitié le vole.
Et le secret s'envole.
Petite abeille, il faut rentrer
Voici la nuit,
La nuit au loin s'avance,
Va dans ta ruche, va préparer
Ton miel dans silence.
La nuit au loin s'avance.
Vole,
Humble abeille
Le printemps s'éveille !

Text Authorship:

by Stéphan Bordèse (1847 - 1919) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in English by Edward Frederick Lockton (1876 - 1940), as Edward Teschemacher [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Luigi Denza (1846 - 1922), "L'abeille", from Le jardin des fleurs, no. 6. [
text verified 1 time
]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , title 1: "De bij", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Lidy van Noordenburg

This text was added to the website: 2008-03-17
Line count: 24
Word count: 104

De bij

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the French (Français)

Zoemend van bloem naar bloem
gaat de slimme bij
het beste halen uit het hart
van de rode roos.
Zoemend onder de blauwe hemel
en zachtjes doet hij een bekentenis
geheim van zijn  tederheid.
De bij liefkoost haar.

Vlieg, hier is de lente
Vlieg, de roos wacht op je.

En de bloem vangt zijn geheim
in haar tere bloemenkroon,
maar overleeft de brutale wind
die hem zonder pardon wegblaast.
En het geheim waait weg.
Bijtje, je moet terugkomen
Hier komt de nacht,
De nacht nadert uit de verte,
ga in je korf, ga je honing
maken in stilte.
De nacht nadert uit de verte.
Vlieg,
ned'rige bij
De lente ontwaakt!

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Stéphan Bordèse (1847 - 1919)
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Based on:

a text in English by Edward Frederick Lockton (1876 - 1940), as Edward Teschemacher [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2008-10-20
Line count: 24
Word count: 110