Pastourelle
Language: Occitan
Available translation(s): ENG
"È passo dè dessaï !
È passo dellaï l'aïo !
Bendras olprès de ièu,
Què d'ofaïré parlorèn,
È lou restan del jiour
N'en parlorén d'amour !"
"Né pouodi pas passa !
Couci bouos qué iéu passi ?
N'aï pas de pount d'arcados
È n'aï pas dè batéu,
Ni máï dè pastourel
Qué mè siasco fidèl !"
"Aurias léu un batéu
Sè tu èros poulido !
Aurias un pount d'arcados,
Aurias un pastourel
Qué té serio fidèl
È máï djusqu'al toumbel !
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- ENG English [singable] (Peter Low) , "Pastoral dialogue", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 81
Pastoral dialogue
Language: English  after the Occitan
HE
Oh come over to me
on my side of the river
Come talk of ewes and rams
and your pretty woolly lambs
And when we've chatted enough
then our talk will be of love
SHE
But what way can I use
for crossing over the river?
I have no boat to row
nor a bridge by which to go
Nor yet a little boy blue
to love me ever true
HE
You soon would have a boat
if you were really pretty
a fine bridge to cross
and a handsome shepherd too
A boy who would be true
your whole life-time through
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This text was added to the website: 2013-03-18
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Word count: 103