Incertitude, ô mes délices
Vous et moi nous nous en allons
Comme s'en vont les écrevisses,
À reculons, à reculons.
Text Authorship:
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 Absil (1893 - 1974), "L'Écrevisse", op. 58 no. 2 (1944), published 1964 [ SATB quartet a cappella ], from Bestiaire. Cinq petites pièces pour quatuor vocal mixte sur des poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 2, Paris : Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "L'Écrevisse", op. 1b no. 22 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 22, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "L'Écrevisse", 1961-1963 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (alpha) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "L'Écrevisse", op. 17a no. 22 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 22 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "L'Écrevisse", FP 15a no. 5 (1919), published 1920 [ medium voice and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 5, Éd. de La Sirène [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "The crawfish", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Krebs", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "Il gambero", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [
Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 20
Incertezza, o mia delizia,
voi ed io ce ne andiamo
come se ne vanno i gamberi,
all'indietro, all'indietro.
