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The rats were devouring the house, but instead of examining the cat's teeth and the cat's claws, they only concerned themselves to find out if it was a holy cat, a pious cat, a moral cat...
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Authorship:
- by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), as Mark Twain, appears in Recollections of Joan of Arc [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 Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (b. 1941), "The rats were devouring the house", 1986 [mezzo-soprano or soprano and piano], from the a play - incidental music Herstory III: Jehanne de Lorraine, no. 8, confirmed with composer's website [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-02-16
Line count: 6
Word count: 36
Les rats dévoraient la maison, mais au lieu d'examiner les dents du chat et les mâchoires du chat, ils étaient seulement préoccupés de savoir si c'était un chat saint, un chat pieux, un chat moral...
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- Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2019 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in English by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), as Mark Twain, appears in Recollections of Joan of Arc
This text was added to the website: 2019-02-18
Line count: 6
Word count: 35