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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Zoe Todd

Allez Orphée!

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Allez Orphée, allez, allez!
Que votre amour extrême serve d'exemple à l'univers.
Il est beau qu'un mortel passe jusqu'aux Enfers
Pour se rejoindre à ce qu'il aime.

Hâtez-vous, hâtez-vous généreux amant.
Votre amour sert à votre gloire.
L'avenir aura peine à croire
Qu'on ait aimé si constamment.

Une tendresse conjugale n'a point encore forcé d'epoux
A passer la Barque fatale,
Cet honneur n'était dû qu'à vous.

Allez Orphée etc etc

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Louis Nicolas Clérambault (1676 - 1749), "Allez Orphée!", from the cantata Orphée [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Zoe Todd) , "Go Orpheus", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Zoe Todd

This text was added to the website: 2004-04-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 70

Go Orpheus

Language: English after the French (Français)

Go Orpheus, go, go!
Let your great love be an example to the universe.
How beautiful it is that a mortal should go to the reaches of Hell 
To rejoin his beloved.

Hurry, o great-hearted lover!
Your love serves to increase your glory.
Future generations can scarcely believe
That a person loved so constantly.

No matrimonial love has since compelled a man
To sail into the Afterworld 
That honour was to be only for you

Go Orpheus! Etc etc

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2004-04-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 79