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by Pierre Joseph (Gentil) Bernard (1708 - 1775)

Deux bergères, pour faire usage
Language: French (Français) 
Deux bergères, pour faire usage
De l'amusement des beaux jours,
Alloient chasser dans le bocage
Ces oiseaux qu'on appelle amours.

Doris, d'une course rapide,
Osa, sans crainte, en approcher;
Églé, d'un pas lent et timide,
Dans un buisson fut se cacher.

De filets l'une environnée,
Vouloit enlever tout l'essaim ;
L'autre, dans ses vœux plus bornée,
N'avoit qu'une cage à la main.

Bientôt, auprès de nos bergères,
Tout le peuple ailé répandu,
Vola sur les branches légères
Du piège qu'on avoit tendu.

Doris en vit approcher mille,
Qu'effraya l'appât suborneur.
Dans sa cage, &Éacute;glé plus habile,
En prit un qui fit son bonheur. 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre Joseph (Gentil) Bernard (1708 - 1775), "Ode XIV", subtitle: "La cage" [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 Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (1751 - 1802), "Romance", published 1794 [ voice and piano ], from Gesaenge mit Begleitung des Fortepiano von Corona Schroeter, zweyte Sammlung, no. 13, Weimar: In Commission bey dem Industrie Comptoir [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-12-06
Line count: 20
Word count: 103

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