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Versons ces roses en ce vin, En ce bon vin versons ces roses, Et buvons l'un à l'autre, afin Qu'au cœur nos tristesses encloses, En buvant prennent quelque fin. La belle rose du printemps, En ce monde avertit les hommes passer joyeusement le tems, Et pendant que jeunes nous sommes, ébattre gaiment la fleur de no sans. Tout ainsi que la rose défleurit Fanée en une matinée, Ainsi notre âge se flétrit. Hélas! En moins d'une journée, Déjà, le printems d'un home périt. Pour ce, versons, amis, versons. Versons ces roses en ce vin, En ce bon vin versons ces roses, Et buvons l'un à l'autre, afin Qu'au cœur nos tristesses encloses, En bien buvant prennent quelque fin. Versez, versez, versez ces roses en ce vin.
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- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Versons ces roses en ce vin", 1953 [ mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), "Versons ces roses près ce vin", op. 43 (Quatre chansons) no. 1, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 37, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [sung text checked 1 time]
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Linda Godry) (Heide Wiesner) , "Laßt uns diese Rosenblüten in unseren Wein streuen", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2012-08-12
Line count: 22
Word count: 126
Pour these roses into the wine, Into this fine wine pour these roses, And drink one to another, that Those sad things we keep in our hearts May meet in drinking some kind of end. The fair rose of spring In this world alerts men To spend their time joyously And, while we're young, To frolic away joyously the flower of our years. Just as the rose's petals fall, Faded in a morning, So our age is blighted: Alas, in less than a day Already a man's springtime perishes. And so, pour, my friends, pour! Pour these roses into the wine, Into this fine wine pour these roses, And drink one to another, that Those sad things we keep in our hearts May meet in hard drinking some kind of end! Pour, pour, pour these roses into the wine!
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title
This text was added to the website: 2014-01-14
Line count: 22
Word count: 139