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by Charles Hubert Millevoye (1782 - 1816)
Translation © by Linda Godry

Dans les bois l'amoureux Myrtil
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Dans les bois l'amoureux Myrtil
Avait pris Fauvette légère :
"Aimable oiseau, lui disait-il,
Je te destine à ma bergère.
Pour prix du don que j'aurai fait,
Que de baisers !... Si ma Lucette 
M'en donne deux pour un bouquet,
J'en aurai dix pour la Fauvette."

La Fauvette dans le vallon
A laissé son ami fidèle,
Et [fait tant]1 que de sa prison
Elle s'échappe à tire-d'aile.
"Ah ! dit le berger désolé,
Adieu les baisers de Lucette !
Tout mon bonheur s'est envolé
Sur les ailes de la Fauvette."

Myrtil retourne au bois voisin,
Pleurant la perte qu'il a faite ;
Soit par hasard, soit à [dessein]2,
Dans le bois se trouvait Lucette :
[Sensible]3 à ce gage de foi,
Elle sortit de sa retraite,
En lui disant: "[Console-toi]4,
Tu n'as perdu que la Fauvette!"

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   G. Bizet •   L. Diémer 

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1 Bizet, Diémer: "tant fait"
2 Bizet: "destin"
3 Bizet: "Et sensible"
4 Bizet: "Console-toi, console-toi, Myrtil, console-toi, ah !"

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Hubert Millevoye (1782 - 1816), "La fauvette", written 1800, appears in Poésies diverses, in Poésies légères, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Firmin Didot, first published 1814 [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 Antoine Banès (1856 - 1924), "Vieille chanson", published [1881] [ high voice and piano ], from 12 Mélodies, no. 4, Paris, Éd Félix Mackar [sung text not yet checked]
  • by D. Biancheri , "La fauvette", published 1885? [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Enoch Père & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Vieille chanson", op. 21 no. 3 (1865), published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Louis Diémer (1843 - 1919), "La fauvette", published 1875 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt Mélodies, no. 4, Paris : Henri Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "La fauvette", CG. 383 (1839?), published 1872, orchestrated 1871 [ voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edmond Michotte (1831 - 1914), "La fauvette", published [1864] [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt-cinq morceaux de chant à une et à plusieurs voix avec accompagnement de piano, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Linda Godry) , "An old song", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Linda Godry) , "Ein altes Lied", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 136

Ein altes Lied
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Der liebestrunkene Myrtil
Hat in den Wäldern die zierliche Grasmücke gefangen;
Du hübscher Vogel bist
meiner Schäferin zum Geschenk bestimmt.
Bringe ich dich ihr als Geschenk
Dankt sie es mir mit Küssen. Wenn meine Lucette,  
mir davon sonst auch nur Zweie gibt
Für so ein Geschenk werden's Zehne, ah.
Ah zehne für die Grasmücke.

Die Grasmücke jedoch
Hatte dort im Tal seine Gefährtin
Und alsbald, alsbald, alsbald
entschlüpfte mit eiligem Flügelschlag ihrem Gefängnis.
Ach! Dachte der verzweifelte Schäfer,
Nie mehr Küsse mehr von meiner Lucette!
All mein Glück entschwand
Auf den Flügeln der Grasmücke!

Traurig kehrte Myrtil in den nahen Wald zurück
Seinen Verlust beweinend.
Doch dort im Walde, sei es Glück, sei es Schicksal
Befand sich seine Lucette.
Wohl wissend um seine gute Absicht,
kam sie hervor aus ihrem Versteck
und sprach: tröste dich, 
Du hast ja nur die Grasmücke verloren.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2007 by Linda Godry, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Charles Hubert Millevoye (1782 - 1816), "La fauvette", written 1800, appears in Poésies diverses, in Poésies légères, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Firmin Didot, first published 1814
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This text was added to the website: 2007-05-17
Line count: 25
Word count: 142

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