At Haying Time | The village festival is tomorrow, a bagpipe

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by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Au temps des foins

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

C'est demain la fête au village, une musette
Pleure, l'ombrage est plein de nids et de noisettes,
Et la femme est debout, tout en bleu, le port fier,
Dans un char qu'on dirait soulevé par la mer.

Text Authorship:

by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Au temps des foins", appears in Les livres des quatrains, in 1. Premier Livre [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 Robert de Roos (1907 - 1976), "Au temps des foins", 1941, from Cinq Quatrains de Francis Jammes (II), no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2023-01-31
Line count: 4
Word count: 37

At Haying Time

Language: English after the French (Français)

The village festival is tomorrow, a bagpipe 
Weeps, the shadows are full of nests and hazelnuts, 
And the woman is standing, all in blue, her carriage proud, 
In a float that seems lifted up by the sea.

Text Authorship:

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a text in French (Français) by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Au temps des foins", appears in Les livres des quatrains, in 1. Premier Livre
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This text was added to the website: 2026-05-03
Line count: 4
Word count: 37