Текст песни Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit

What is it stirring near the gallows?
        Faust

What is it that I hear? Either the wind howls in the night, or does the hangman groan on the gallows?

Is the grasshopper chirping, hiding in moss and barren ivy, which out of pity for him shod the forest?

Is it that a fly flying out for prey blows a hunting horn, circling at the very ears of a gallows, forever deaf to hooting?

Is the beetle grave beetle in a clumsy flight tearing the last hair from the bloodied head of a strangler?

Is the spider weaving a strip of silk on a neckerchief for the stiffened throat of a hanged man?

This bell sounds outside the city wall, on the horizon, and a crimson sunset floods the hangman’s skeleton with blood.

Aloysius bertrand