Pastorale | Here tender birds savor

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sometimes misattributed to Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680 - 1754) and by Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672 - 1731)

Translation © by Allen Shearer

Ici les tendres oiseaux

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Ici les tendres oiseaux
Goûtent cent douceurs secrètes,
Et l'on entend ces côteaux 
Retentir des chansonnettes
Qu'ils apprennent aux échos.

Sur ce gazon les ruisseaux,
Murmurent leurs amourettes,
Et l'on voit jusqu'aux ormeaux,
Pour embrasser les fleurettes,
Pencher leurs jeunes rameaux.

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Text Authorship:

sometimes misattributed to Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680 - 1754)
by Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672 - 1731) [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 André Cardinal Destouches (c1672 - 1749), "Ici les tendres oiseaux", published 1697, from opera Issé, pastorale héroïque, Paris, Éd. Christophe Ballard [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Pastorale", subtitle: "Duettino", 1855, published 1856 [ vocal duet with piano ], Éd. Richault [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Allen Shearer) , "Pastorale", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes) , "Die Pastorale ", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 41

Pastorale

Language: English after the French (Français)

Here tender birds savor
a hundred secret sweets,
and you can hear these hills
resound with the little tunes
they teach to the echoes.

In this meadow the brooks
murmur out their loves,
and you see the very elm trees
bend their young branches
to embrace the flowers.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2005 by Allen Shearer, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) misattributed to Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680 - 1754) and by Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672 - 1731)
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This text was added to the website: 2005-09-02
Line count: 10
Word count: 48