by
Clément Marot (1496 - 1544)
Anne par jeu me jecta de la neige
Language: French (Français)
Anne par jeu me jecta de la neige
Que je cuidoys froide certainement:
Mais c'estoit feu, l'expérience en ay-je
Car embrasé je fuz soubdainement
Puisque le feu loge secretement
Dedans la neige, où trouveray-je place
Pour n'ardre point? Anne, ta seule grâce
Estaindre peut le feu que je sens bien
Non point par eau, par neige, ne par glace,
Mais par sentir ung feu pareil au mien.
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To Anne who threw snow at me
Language: English after the French (Français)
Anne in fun threw snow at me
which I found cold for certain:
but it was fire, the experience I had
for suddenly I was caressed
So, as fire secretly dwells
within the snow, where can I find a place
that does not burn? Anne, only your kindness
can extinguish the fire which consumes me
not with water, snow, or ice,
But with a fire like unto my own.
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