D'un vanneur de blé aux vents

À vous, troppe légère,
  Qui d'aele passagère
    Par le monde volez,
Et, d'un sifflant murmure
  L'ombrageuse verdure
    Doulcement esbranlez,

J'offre ces violettes,
  Ces lis, et ces fleurettes,
    Et ces roses icy,
Ces vermeillettes roses,
  Tout freschement écloses,
    Et ces oeilletz aussi.

De vostre doulce halaine
  Éventez ceste plaine,
    Éventez ce séjour:
Ce pendant que j'ahanne
  À mon blé, que je vanne
    À la chaleur du jour.

by Joachim du Bellay (1525-c1560)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) , "D'un vanneur de blé aux vents", 1924-5, published 1926, from 3 Early Songs, no. ?
by Rudolf (Ruud) Leopold Koumans (1929-) , "D'un vanneur de blé aux vents", op. 28 no. 1 (1969) [soprano, clarinet, and piano], from Trois voeuz rustiques, no. 1.

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