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Tant de tristesses plénières Prirent mon cœur aux fagnes désolées Quand las j'ai reposé dans les sapinières Le poids des kilomètres pendant que râlait le vent d'ouest. J'avais quitté le joli bois Les écureuils y sont restés Ma pipe essayait de faire des nuages Au ciel Qui restait pur obstinément. Je n'ai confié aucun secret sinon une chanson énigmatique Aux tourbières humides Les bruyères fleurant le miel Attiraient les abeilles Et mes pieds endoloris Foulaient les myrtilles et les airelles Tendrement mariée Nord Nord La vie s'y tord En arbres forts Et tors. La vie y mord La mort À belles dents Quand bruit le vent
Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Fagnes de Wallonie", written 1915, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925 [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Fagnes de Wallonie", FP 107 no. 3 (1940), published 1941 [ medium voice and piano ], from Banalités, no. 3, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Aiguamolls de Valònia", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Walloon moorlands", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 26
Word count: 106
Moltes tristeses pleneres
copsaren el meu cor als aiguamolls desolats
quan, cansat, vaig descarregar als avetars
el pes dels quilòmetres mentre
el vent de ponent bramulava.
Havia deixat el bonic bosc
els esquirols s'hi van quedar
la meva pipa intentava fer núvols
al cel
que tossudament es mantenia clar.
No vaig confiar cap secret, tret d'una cançó enigmàtica,
a les torberes humides
Els bruguerars flairant la mel
atreien les abelles
i els meus peus adolorits
trepitjaven els nabius i els gerds
tendrament aparellats
nord
nord
la vida es cargola
en arbres forts
i retorçats.
La vida hi mossega
la mort
voraçment
quan udola el vent
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2026 by Salvador Pila, (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 Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Fagnes de Wallonie", written 1915, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925
This text was added to the website: 2026-04-22
Line count: 26
Word count: 105