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Écoutez la chanson des blés : La faim par nous est assouvie. Nous sommes les flots de la vie A travers le monde roulés. Écoutez la chanson des blés : La beauté fleurit notre sève. Nous sommes les blonds cheveux d'Eve A travers l'azur envolés. Écoutez la chanson des blés : Un bruit court à nos cimes frèles. Nous sommes les oiseaux sans ailes Dont les chants vous ont consolés, Écoutez la chanson des blés : En nous court le sang de la terre, Et le pavot, fleur solitaire, Rougit souvent nos flancs brûlés. Écoutez la chanson des blés : De la terre ouvrant la poitrine, Pareille au lait blanc, la farine S'exprime de nos grains foulés. Écoutez la chanson des blés : Nous sommes le brin d'herbe auguste Par qui l'homme, toujours robuste, Rêve encore aux cieux exilés. Écoutez la chanson des blés !
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Armand Silvestre, Premières Poésies, Paris: G. Charpentier et Cie , 1887, Pages 84-85.
Text Authorship:
- by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "La chanson des blés", appears in Poésies 1861-1874, in 1. Les amours, in 2. Vers pour être chantés, Paris, Éd. G. Charpentier, first published 1875 [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 Gaston Berardi (1849 - 1926), "La Chanson des blés", published [1875] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Legay (1851 - 1915), "La Chanson des blés", 1886?, published [1886] [ medium voice and piano ], from Toute la Gamme, quinze compositions illustrées et Lettres autographes, no. 15, Paris, Éd. Brandus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), "La chanson des blés" [ bass and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 12, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel et Fils [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Léon Vercken (1828 - 1892), "Chanson des blés" [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. J. Naus [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2020-09-18
Line count: 25
Word count: 138
Listen to the song of the wheatfields: By us hunger is assuaged. We are the tides of life Rolling across the world. Listen to the song of the wheatfields: Beauty crowns our sap with flowers. We are the blonde hair of Eve Flying across the azure. Listen to the song of the wheatfields: A sound runs through our frail crowns. We are the wingless birds Whose songs have consoled you, Listen to the song of the wheatfields: Through us runs the blood of the earth, And the poppy, solitary flower, Often reddens our scorched flanks. Listen to the song of the wheatfields: Opening the breast of the earth, In the manner of white milk, flour Is expressed from our trodden grains. Listen to the song of the wheatfields: We are the venerable blade of grass By which man, ever sturdy, Dreams again of exiled skies. Listen to the song of the wheatfields!
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Translations of titles:
"Chanson des blés" = "Song of the Wheatfields"
"La chanson des blés" = "The Song of the Wheatfields"
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "La chanson des blés", appears in Poésies 1861-1874, in 1. Les amours, in 2. Vers pour être chantés, Paris, Éd. G. Charpentier, first published 1875
This text was added to the website: 2025-09-08
Line count: 25
Word count: 152