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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Comme un chevreuil, quand le printemps...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Comme un chevreuil, quand le printemps destruit 
L'oyseux crystal de la morne gelée, 
Pour mieulx brouster l'herbette emmielée 
Hors de son boys avec l'Aube s'en fuit,

Et seul, et seur, loing de chiens et de bruit, 
Or sur un mont, or dans une vallée, 
Or pres d'une onde à l'escart recelée, 
Libre follastre où son pied le conduit ;

De retz ne d'arc sa liberté n'a crainte, 
Sinon alors que sa vie est attainte, 
D'un trait meurtrier empourpré de son sang :

Ainsi j'alloy sans espoyr de dommage, 
Le jour qu'un oeil sur l'avril de mon age 
Tira d'un coup mille traitz dans mon flanc.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Comme un chevreuil, quand le printemps détruit", 1956 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-02-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 103

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