Je connais un autre connin
Que tout vivant je voudrais prendre.
Sa garenne est parmi le thym
Des vallons du pays de Tendre.
First appeared in the revue La Phalange, June 15, 1908, in "La Marchande des quatre saisons ou le bestiaire mondain" no. 8 of 18, and later in the 1911 publication of "Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée", Paris, Deplanche.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "Le Lapin", op. 1b no. 9 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 9, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Le Lapin", 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Bestiaire, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "Le Lapin", 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (bêta) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Le Lapin", op. 17a no. 9 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rachel Laurin (b. 1961), "Le Lapin", op. 22 no. 2 (1992), copyright © 1992 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Rabbit", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 23
I know another rabbit
which I would like to catch alive.
Her warren is among the thyme
in the vales of the Land of Love.
