by
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Comme un chevreuil, quand le printemps...
Language: French (Français)
Comme un chevreuil, quand le printemps destruit
L'oyseux crystal de la morne gelée,
Pour mieulx brouster l'herbette emmielée
Hors de son boys avec l'Aube s'en fuit,
Et seul, et seur, loing de chiens et de bruit,
Or sur un mont, or dans une vallée,
Or pres d'une onde à l'escart recelée,
Libre follastre où son pied le conduit ;
De retz ne d'arc sa liberté n'a crainte,
Sinon alors que sa vie est attainte,
D'un trait meurtrier empourpré de son sang :
Ainsi j'alloy sans espoyr de dommage,
Le jour qu'un oeil sur l'avril de mon age
Tira d'un coup mille traitz dans mon flanc.
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As a buck, when spring destroys
Language: English after the French (Français)
As a buck, when spring destroys
The slow-parting ice of dismal winter,
To graze better on the honeyed leaves
Will escape from the woods at Dawn:
And alone and safe, far from dogs and noise,
On a hill, or in a valley,
Or near some water hidden some way off,
Free, frolicking where his feet take him;
His freedom fears no nets or bows
Until that moment when his life is taken
By a fatal wound purpled with his blood;
Just so, I had no expectation of harm
On that day in the April of my years when her eye
Shot with one dart a thousand wounds into my flank.
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