Berceuse Créole
Language: French (Français)
Des grandes ombres se forment
Dans le bois des lataniers
Les petits oiseaux s'endorment
Faites comme eux chers ramiers.
On n'entend plus dans les branches
Leur merveilleux gazoullis
Toutes les têtes se penchent
Ils dorment les bengalis.
Les doux zéphyrs les balancent
en agitant les bambous,
Et l'harmonieux silence
Les bercera comme vous!
Reposez si tout sommeille
Dans les bois sur les côteaux.
Notre amour est là qui veille.
Dormez bien petits oiseaux.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , title 1: "Creole Lullaby", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2008-06-26
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Word count: 73
Creole Lullaby
Language: English after the French (Français)
Great shadows form
in the palm groves.
The little birds fall asleep.
Do as they do, dear wood-pigeons!
In the branches one no longer
hears their wondrous chirping.
All heads bend forward.
The waxbills sleep.
The sweet zephyrs support them
as they shake the bamboo,
and a harmonious silence
will rock them, as it will rock you!
Rest, as everything sleeps
in the woods, on the slopes.
Our love is here and keeps vigil.
Sleep well, little birds!
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2008 by Sharon Krebs, (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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This text was added to the website: 2008-06-26
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