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Modernized form used by Strong (with some changes):

  Tais toi, babillarde l’hirondelle,
Ou bien, je plumerai ton aile,
Si je t’empoigne, et d’un couteau
Je te couperai la languette,
Qui matin sans repos caquette
Et m’etourdit tout le cerveau.
  Je te prète me cheminée,
Pour chanter toute la journée,
De soir, de nuit, quand tu voudras;
Mais au matin ne me reveille,
Et ne m’ôste quand je sommeille
Ma Cassandre d’entre les bras.

Text Authorship:

• by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Jacques Durand (1865 - 1928), "À une hirondelle", published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 2, Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Rudolf) Walther Hirschberg (1889 - 1960), "L'Arondelle" [ high voice and piano ], from 12 Mélodies, no. 12 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Tay toy, babillarde Arondelle", op. 223 no. 3 (1940) [ voice and piano ], from Quatre Chansons de Ronsard, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Ode", 1963, copyright © 1980, first performed 1965 [ high voice and flute ], from Cinq Mélodies sur des poèmes de Ronsard, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948), "À l'hirondelle", copyright © 1929 [ four-part men's chorus ], Genève, Édition Henn [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 66