Celui qui doit mourir ce soir dans les tranchées C'est un petit soldat dont l'oeil indolemment Observe tout le jour aux créneaux de ciment Les Gloires qui de nuit y furent accrochées Celui qui doit mourir ce soir dans les tranchées C'est un petit soldat mon frère et mon amant Et puisqu'il doit mourir je veux me faire belle Je veux de mes seins nus allumer les flambeaux Je veux de mes grands yeux fondre l'étang qui gèle Et mes hanches je veux qu'elles soient des tombeaux Car puisqu'il doit mourir je veux me faire belle Dans l'inceste et la mort ces deux gestes si beaux Les vaches du couchant meuglent toutes leurs roses L'aile de l'oiseau bleu m'évente doucement C'est l'heure de l Amour aux ardentes névroses C'est l'heure de la Mort et du dernier serment Celui qui doit périr comme meurent les roses C'est un petit soldat mon frère et mon amant
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Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, appears in Les attentives, no. 1 [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 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Les attentives I", op. 135 no. 5, from Symphony no. 14, no. 5, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov (1922 - 1994) , copyright © ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "En guàrdia", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Salvador Pila) , "On guard", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 154
В траншее он умрет до наступленья ночи [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov (1922 - 1994), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, appears in Les attentives, no. 1
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Начеку", op. 135 no. 5, from Symphony no. 14, no. 5, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2007-12-01
Line count: 18
Word count: 120