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Antoni Grabowski Cikado kaj formiko Esperanto Arg-1108-549 2014-03-16 17:39 Manfred only this add
N. N. 23 Die Grille und die Ameise German Arg-1107-549 2010-07-11 12:50 Manfred only this add
Wilhelm Ernst Dohm Die Grille und die Ameise German Arg-1104-549 2010-07-09 22:21 Manfred only this add
Rolf Mayr Die Grille und die kleine Ameise German Arg-1106-549 2010-07-18 07:14 Manfred only this add
Jean de La Fontaine * La Cigale et la Fourmi French Arg-1103-549 2010-08-07 13:53 Manfred only this add
Manfredo Ratislavo La cikad' kaj la formik' Esperanto 1983 Arg-1105-549 2010-07-09 23:08 Manfred only this add
Donald P. Webb The Cricket and the Ant English Arg-1111-549 2010-08-06 19:10 Manfred only this remove

Jean de La Fontaine,
The Cricket and the Ant

 
translated by Donald P. Webb
 
The cricket had sung her song
all summer long
but found her victuals too few
when the north wind blew.
Nowhere could she espy
a single morsel of worm or fly.
Her neighbor, the ant, might,
she thought, help her in her plight,
and she begged her for a little grain
till summer would come back again.
“By next August I’ll repay both
Interest and principal; animal’s oath.”
Now, the ant may have a fault or two
But lending is not something she will do.
She asked what the cricket did in summer.
“By night and day, to any comer
I sang whenever I had the chance.”
“You sang, did you? That’s nice. Now dance.”
 
Translation of the French poem "La Cigale
et la Fourmi" by Jean de La Fontaine
(*1621-07.08 - †1695-04.12) into
English by Donald P. Webb (*1939).

Mi, Manfred Retzlaff, transprenis tiun
ĉi tradukon el la retejo
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue209/cigale.html.
La tradukinto, s-ro Don Webb, permesis
tion mi. -
I, Manfred Retzlaff, found this translation
in the website
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue209/cigale.html.
The author, Mr. Don Webb, gave me the
permission.