by
Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)
Deux ancolies se balançaient sur la...
Language: French (Français)
Deux ancolies se balançaient sur la colline
Et l'ancolie disait à sa sœur l'ancolie :
Je tremble devant toi et demeure confuse.
Et l'autre répondait : si dans la roche qu'use
l'eau, goutte à goutte, si je me mire, je vois
que je tremble, et je suis confuse comme toi.
Le vent de plus en plus les berçait toutes deux,
les emplissait d'amour et mêlait leurs cœurs bleus.
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jean Apothéloz (1900 - 1965), "Deux ancolies" [ medium voice and piano ], from Au Jardin de Francis Jammes, no. 7, MS [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marie Blanche Selva (1884 - 1942), "Deux Ancholie", 1905 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Deux ancolies", 1999 [ high voice, flute, and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 20 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918), "Deux ancolies", 1914, published 1919 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Clairières dans le ciel, no. 10, Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Deux ancolies se balançaient sur la colline", op. 355 no. 20 (1956), published 1957 [ baritone and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 20, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Two columbines", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Two columbines
Language: English after the French (Français)
Two columbines rocked on the hill.
One columbine said to her sister columbine,
"I tremble before you and am confused."
The other answered, "If in the rock that
the water wears away drop by drop I look at myself, I see
that I tremble and I am as confused as you are."
The wind rocked them harder,
filling them with love and mingling their blue hearts.
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