Land, auf halbem Weg verblieben

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Pays, arrêté à mi‑chemin

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Pays, arrêté à mi-chemin
entre la terre et les cieux,
aux [voix]¹ 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 !

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• D. Milhaud

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¹ Milhaud: "voies"

Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 2 [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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Pays, arrêté à mi-chemin", op. 206 no. 1, published 1939 [ chorus ], from Quatrains Valaisans, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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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

This text was added to the website: 2004-12-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 36

Land, auf halbem Weg verblieben

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Land, auf halbem Weg verblieben
zwischen Erd’ und Himmel,
von Wassern und von Erz durchzogen,
mild und wild, jung und alt,

erhoben wie ein Opfer
zur Hand, die es empfängt:
Land, schön und vollendet,
warm, wie das Brot!

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a text in French (Français) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 2
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This text was added to the website: 2016-05-24
Line count: 8
Word count: 38