Les bergers | Septembre, allons-y. Il est temps de migrer

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by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863 - 1938)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

I pastori

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Settembre, andiamo. É tempo di migrare.
Ora in terra d'Abruzzi i miei pastori
Lascian gli stazzi e vanno verso il mare:
Scendono all'Adriatico selvaggio
Che verde è come i pascoli dei monti.

Han bevuto profondamente ai fonti
Alpestri, che sapor d'acqua natìa
Rimanga nei cuori esuli a conforto,
Che lungo illuda la lor sete in via.
Rinnovato hanno verga d'avellano.

E vanno pel tratturo antico al piano,
Quasi per un erbal fiume silente,
Su le vestigia degli antichi padri.
O voce di colui che primamente
Conosce il tremolar della marina!

Ora lungh'esso il litoral cammina
La greggia. Senza mutamento è l'aria.
Il sole imbionda sì la viva lana
Che quasi dalla sabbia non divaria.
Isciacquìo, calpestìo, dolci romori.

Ah perchè non son io co' miei pastori?

Text Authorship:

by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863 - 1938) [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 Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880 - 1968), "I pastori", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Cinque Liriche, no. 1, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 2 times]

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

ENG English (Ryan Bede) , "The Shepherds", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les bergers", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Robert Grady

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 126

Les bergers

Language: French (Français) after the Italian (Italiano)

Septembre, allons-y. Il est temps de migrer.
Maintenant dans la terre des Abruzzes, mes bergers
Quittent leurs estives et vont vers la mer :
Ils descendent vers l'Adriatique sauvage,
Verte comme les prairies dans les montagnes.

Ils ont bu profondément aux fontaines
Alpines pour que la saveur de l'eau née là
Reste dans leurs cœurs d'exilés comme réconfort,
Et longtemps apaise leur soif sur la route.
Ils ont renouvelé leur baguette de noisetier.

Et ils vont sur l'antique sentier vers la plaine
Presque comme un flot silencieux herbeux,
Dans les traces de leurs anciens pères.
Ô voix de celui qui le premier
A connu le tremblement de la mer !

Maintenant le long du rivage marche
Le troupeau. Sans mouvement est l'air.
Le soleil blanchit tant la laine vivante
Qu'on ne peut presque pas la distinguer du sable.
Éclaboussure, piétinement, doux sons.

Ah, pourquoi ne suis-je pas avec mes bergers ?

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863 - 1938)
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This text was added to the website: 2013-03-18
Line count: 21
Word count: 148