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by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903)

Les Cloportes
Language: French (Français) 
Au bas d’un vieux mur qui s’écroule,
Par delà fermes et guérets,
Les cloportes, lents et secrets,
Rampaient, ignorés de la poule.

Je longeais un ruisseau qui coule,
Lorsque j’aperçus les pauvrets
Au bas d’un vieux mur qui s’écroule.
Par delà fermes et guérets.

— Comme ils étaient loin de la foule,
Dans ces gravats mornes et frais !
Je voulus les voir de plus près ;
Mais ils se roulèrent en boule
Au bas d’un vieux mur qui s’écroule.

Confirmed with Maurice Rollinat, Dans les brandes, poèmes et rondels, Paris, Charpentier, 1883, pages 248-249.


Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "Les Cloportes", appears in Dans les brandes, poèmes et rondels [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 Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "Les Cloportes" [ voice and piano ], from Pastorales, vingt mélodies, paroles de Maurice Rollinat, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-03-17
Line count: 13
Word count: 78

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