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by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)

Mortellement atteint d'une flèche...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Mortellement atteint d'une flèche empennée,
Un Oiseau déplorait sa triste destinée,
Et disait, en souffrant un surcroît de douleur :
Faut-il contribuer à son propre malheur ?
Cruels humains, vous tirez de nos ailes
De quoi faire voler ces machines mortelles.
Mais ne vous moquez point, engeance sans pitié :
Souvent il vous arrive un sort comme le nôtre.
Des enfants de Japet toujours une moitié
Fournira des armes à l'autre.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres complètes de Jean de La Fontaine, Paris: Didot, 1837, Page 21.


Text Authorship:

  • by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695), "L'oiseau blessé d'une flèche", appears in Fables, Book 2, Fable 6 [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 Marcelle de Manziarly (1899 - 1989), "L'oiseau blessé d'une flèche", 1935, from Trois Fables de La Fontaine, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959), "Oiseau blessé d'une flèche", op. 10 (1913), published 1987, first performed 1917 [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: Arthur Napoleão [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-08-05
Line count: 10
Word count: 68

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