Hyde Park | The makers of religion

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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

Translation © by Marian Nelson

Hyde Park

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Les Faiseurs de religion
Prêchaient dans le brouillard
Les ombres près de qui nous passions
Jouaient à collin maillard

À soixante-dix ans
Joues fraîches de petits enfants
Venez venez Eléonore
Et que sais-je encore

Regardez venir les cyclopes
Les pipes s'envolaient
Mais envolez-vous-en
Regards impénitents
Et l'Europe l'Europe

Regards sacrés
Mains enamourées
Et les amants s'aimèrent
Tant que prêcheurs prêchèrent

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Hyde Park", written 1913, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925 [author's text not yet checked 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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Hyde Park", FP 127 no. 2 (1945), published 1945 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux Mélodies de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 2, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Marian Nelson) , "Hyde Park", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 17
Word count: 60

Hyde Park

Language: English after the French (Français)

The makers of religion
preached in the fog
The shadows we passed by
Played blind man’s bluff

At seventy years of age
Fresh cheeks of little children
Come come Eleonor
And what else do I know

Watch the cyclops come
The pipes flew away
But fly away
unrepentant gazes
and Europe Europe

Sacred gazes
Enamoured hands
And the lovers loved each other
For as long as preachers preached.

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a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Hyde Park", written 1913, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925
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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-25
Line count: 17
Word count: 68