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Ça n'a pas mordu, ce soir, mais je rapporte une rare émotion. Comme je tenais ma perche de ligne tendue, un martin-pêcheur est venu s'y poser. Nous n'avons pas d'oiseau plus éclatant. Il semblait une grosse fleur bleue au bout d'une longue tige. La perche pliait sous le poids. Je ne respirais plus, tout fier d'être pris pour un arbre par un martin-pêcheur. Et je suis sûr qu'il ne s'est pas envolé de peur, mais qu'il a cru qu'il ne faisait que passer d'une branche à une autre.
Authorship
- by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "Le martin-pêcheur", appears in Histoires naturelles, first published 1894 [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 Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), "Le martin-pêcheur", M. 50 no. 4 (1906), published 1907 [voice and piano], from Histoires naturelles, no. 4, Paris: Durand [ sung text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Ahmed E. Ismail) , "The kingfisher", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Kuningaskalastaja", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Eisvogel", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Mikään ei napannut sinä iltana, mutta sain kokea harvinaisen elämyksen. Kun pidin ongenvapaani ojennettuna, kuningaskalastaja istahti sen päälle. Meillä ei ole kiinnostavampaa lintua. Se näytti aivan suurelta siniseltä kukalta pitkän vanan päässä. Vapa taipui sen painon alla. En uskaltanut hengittääkään, olin tosi ylpeä siitä, että kuningaskalastaja luuli minua puuksi. Ja olen varma, että se ei lähtenyt pelosta, vaan että se kuvitteli vain siirtyvänsä oksalta toiselle.
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- Translation from French (Français) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2017 by Erkki Pullinen, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in French (Français) by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "Le martin-pêcheur", appears in Histoires naturelles, first published 1894
This text was added to the website: 2017-09-11
Line count: 13
Word count: 65