by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Pays, arrêté à mi‑chemin
Language: French (Français)
Pays, arrêté à mi-chemin entre la terre et les cieux, aux [voix]1 d'eau et d'airain, doux et dur, jeune et vieux, comme une offrande levée vers d'accueillantes mains : beau pays, achevé, chaud comme le pain !
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Milhaud: "voies"
Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 2 [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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Pays, arrêté à mi-chemin", op. 206 no. 1, published 1939 [ chorus ], from Quatrains Valaisans, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Land, arrested midway ", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Grant Hicks , Ivo Zandhuis
This text was added to the website: 2004-12-11
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