With neither hearth nor home | For the children with neither hearth nor home

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by Jules Supervielle (1884 - 1960)

Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

Sans feu ni lieu

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Pour les enfants sans feu ni lieu
Faudrait une chanson si belle
Qu'elle puisse leur tenir lieu
De demeure très naturelle.

Tout ce dont ils auraient besoin,
Un peu de lait, un peu d'étoffe,
Ainsi que tous les autres soins,
Ils les trouveraient dans les strophes,

Afin de leur faire comprendre
Qu'ils sont moins seuls qu'ils n'ent ont l'air,
Même au milieu de la montagne
Et de la guerre et de l'hiver.

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Text Authorship:

by Jules Supervielle (1884 - 1960), appears in Bolivar [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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Sans feu ni lieu", op. 148b no. 3 (1936), published 1937 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Trois Chansons de Négresse, no. 3, R. Deiss [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "With neither hearth nor home", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 72

With neither hearth nor home

Language: English after the French (Français)

 For the children with neither hearth nor home, 
 we need a song so beautiful 
 that it can take the place 
 of a very natural dwelling for them. 
 
 All they need - 
 a little milk, a little cloth, 
 all other care - 
 will they find in its verses, 
 
 to make them understand 
 that they are not as alone as they seem,
 even amidst mountains 
 and war and winter.

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a text in French (Français) by Jules Supervielle (1884 - 1960), appears in Bolivar
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 66