Album:
Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d’Orphée (1911)
Original lyrics
French
Translation
La sauterelle
Voici la fine sauterelle,
La nourriture de saint Jean.
Puissent mes vers être comme elle,
Le régal des meilleures gens.
The grasshopper
St. John’s food - it used to be
the grasshopper, so it is said.
May my verses likewise be
the connoisseurs’ spiced currant bread.
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