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by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894)

Le rouet
 (Sung text for setting by L. Vierne)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG
Ô mon cher rouet, ma blanche bobine,
Je vous aime mieux que l'or et l'argent !
Vous me donnez tout, lait, beurre et farine,
Et la gai logis, et le vêtement.
Je vous aime mieux que l'or et l'argent !
Ô mon cher rouet, ma blanche bobine !

Ô mon cher rouet, ma blanche bobine,
Vous chantez dès l'aube avec les oiseaux ;
Été comme hiver, chanvre ou laine fine,
Par vous, jusqu'au soir, charge les fuseaux.
Vous chantez dès l'aube avec les oiseaux ;
Ô mon cher rouet, ma blanche bobine !

Ô mon cher rouet, ma blanche bobine,
Vous me filerez mon suaire étroit,
Quand, près de mourir et courbant l'échine,
Je ferai mon lit éternel et froid.
Vous me filerez mon suaire étroit,
Ô mon cher rouet, ma blanche bobine !

First published in Poèmes et Poésies, éd. Dentu, Paris, 1855.

Composition:

    Set to music by Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), "Le rouet", op. 18 no. 3 (1897), published 1902 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Durand

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894), "La chanson du rouet", written 1855, appears in Poèmes antiques, in Chansons écossaises, Paris, Éd. Dentu, first published 1855

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Song of the Wheel", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2020, (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: 18
Word count: 128

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