by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Pays, arrêté à mi‑chemin See original
Language: French (Français)
Pays, arrêté à mi-chemin entre la terre et les cieux, aux voies d'eau et d'airain, doux et dur, jeune et vieux, comme une offrande levée vers d'accueillantes mains : beau pays, achevé, chaud comme le pain !
Composition:
- Set to music by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Pays, arrêté à mi-chemin", op. 206 no. 1, published 1939 [ chorus ], from Quatrains Valaisans, no. 1
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 2
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Land, arrested midway ", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Ivo Zandhuis
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