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by Joachim du Bellay (1525 - c1560)

Du vanneur de blé aux vents
 (Sung text for setting by G. Strong)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
À vous, trouppe légère,
  Qui d'aile passagère
    Par le monde volez,
Et, d'un sifflant murmure
  L'ombrageuse verdure
    Doucement ébranlez,

J'offre ces violettes,
  Ces lis, et ces fleurettes,
    Et ces roses ici,
Ces vermeillettes roses,
  Tout fraichement écloses,
    Et ces oeillets aussi.

De votre douce haleine
  Éventez cette plaine,
    Éventez ce séjour:
Ce pendant que j'ahanne
  À mon blé, que je vanne
    À la chaleur du jour.

Composition:

    Set to music by George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948), "Du vanneur de blé aux vents", copyright © 1929 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Genève, Édition Henn

Text Authorship:

  • by Joachim du Bellay (1525 - c1560), "D'un vanneur de bled aux vents", written c1549, appears in Divers Jeux Rustiques, no. 3

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (David Jonathan Justman) , "From a winnower of wheat to the winds", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 67

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