Quand le son du cor s'endort, gai chasseur ne tarde! -- Déjà les sentiers regardent avec l'oeil creux de la mort passer l'avalanche des hauts chevaux sous les branches. Cavalier, Quel beau squelette enfourche ta bête ? Adieu chasse, adieu galops ! -- Alors s'éveille indistincte puis s'enfle la plainte de l'étang rouge aux oiseaux.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in Complaintes et Dits, first published <<1913 [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 Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Le chasseur perdu en forêt", H. 9 no. 1 (1916), from Trois Poèmes de Paul Fort, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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