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Trois noisettes dans le bois Tout au bout d'une brindille Dansaient la capucine vivement au vent En virant ainsi que des filles De roi, De roi des nains, s'entend. Car à peine étaient-elles hautes Comme botte De grenouille et grosses Comme petit doigt ou comme cosses De pois. Un escargot vint à passer : "Mon [bon]1 monsieur, emmenez-moi Dans votre carrosse, Je serai votre fiancée," Disaient-elles toutes trois. Mais le vieux sire sourd et fatigué, Le sire aux quatre cornes sous les feuilles Ne s'est point arrêté, Et, c'est l'ogre de la forêt, je crois C'est le jeune ogre rouge, gourmand et futé Monseigneur l'écureuil Qui les a croquées.
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Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Les Noisettes", written 1896-1898, appears in Le valet de cœur: poèmes, in 5. Au Hameau, no. 1, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1908 [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 Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "Chanson des noisettes", 1908 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vincent Royer (b. 1965), "Les Trois noisettes", 2017 [ baritone and piano ], from 13 visages de l'automne, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-27
Line count: 23
Word count: 109
Three hazelnuts in the wood At the end of a twig Were dancing Ring a Ring o’ Rosie swiftly in the wind In [turning] just as the daughters Of [the] king, Of [the] king of the dwarves, [you see]. Because hardly were they high As [a wading] boot And big As [a] little finger or as [a] Pea pod. A snail was passing by: “My handsome sir, take me [away] In your coach, I will be your fiancée,” They all three said. But the old sire, deaf and tired, The lord with four horns, under the leaves Did not stop at all, And, it is the ogre of the forest, I believe It is the young, red ogre, gluttonous and cunning, Mister squirrel Who munched them [up].
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Translations of title(s):
"Les noisettes" = "The hazelnuts"
"Chanson des noisettes" = "Song of the hazelnuts"
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Les Noisettes", written 1896-1898, appears in Le valet de cœur: poèmes, in 5. Au Hameau, no. 1, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1908
This text was added to the website: 2019-02-09
Line count: 23
Word count: 127