Dancing-shoe | There’s a ball in the forest this evening

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by Raymond Radiguet (1903 - 1923)

Translation © by Peter Low

Escarpin

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Grand bal dans la forêt ce soir
Les dryades à chaque pin
Ont accroché deux escarpins
Que chaussent leurs cavaliers noirs

Text Authorship:

by Raymond Radiguet (1903 - 1923), "Escarpin", appears in Devoirs de vacances, in Alphabet, no. 5, first published 1921 [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 Georges Auric (1899 - 1983), "Escarpin", 1920, copyright © 1924 [voice and piano], from Alphabet : 7 quatrains de Raymond Radiguet, no. 7, Paris : Max Eschig [ sung text not verified ]

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

ENG English (Peter Low) , "Dancing-shoe", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2013-12-07
Line count: 4
Word count: 21

Dancing‑shoe

Language: English after the French (Français)

There’s a ball in the forest this evening:
on every pine-tree the wood-nymphs
have hung two dancing-shoes,
and their swarthy partners are putting them on.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Raymond Radiguet (1903 - 1923), "Escarpin", appears in Devoirs de vacances, in Alphabet, no. 5, first published 1921
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This text was added to the website: 2017-08-03
Line count: 4
Word count: 25