May | May! The trees of the orchard

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by Georges Louis Edmond Docquois (1863 - 1927)

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Mai

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Mai ! Les arbres du verger 
Sont poudrés de neige rose !
Mai ! S'envole ma névrose !
Mai ! Mon cœur est plus léger !

Mai ! La brise est plus câline !
Mai ! Va-t'en, nuage gris !
Les fillettes de Paris 
Se voilent de mousseline.

Mai ! Le moine en sa cellule 
Est troublé par les oiseaux.
Mai ! Déjà sur les roseaux 
Voltige la libellule.

Mai ! Madame l'hirondelle 
Fait des trilles sur le toit.
Je me sens renaître. 
Et toi, ne renais-tu point, ma belle !

Mai ! Le garςon fait le guet 
Avec un amoureux zèle 
Pour parer sa demoiselle 
De quatre brins de muguet.

Mai ! L'on parque les moutons !
Jouons une pastorale !
Mai ! La joie est générale ! 
Mai ! Tous nous ressuscitons !

Mai ! Quel délice physique !
Mai ! Quel aimable frisson !
Mai ! J'ai fait cette chanson !
Mai ! Qu'on la mette en musique !

Text Authorship:

by Georges Louis Edmond Docquois (1863 - 1927) [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 Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Mai", op. 146 no. 8 (1914), published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from La cendre rouge, no. 8, Paris, Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "May", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-04-29
Line count: 28
Word count: 132

May

Language: English after the French (Français)

May! The trees of the orchard
Are powdered with rosy snow!
May! My [apprehension] flies away!
May! My heart is lighter!

May! The breeze is more loving!
May! Go away, gray cloud!
The girls of Paris
Cover themselves in chiffon.

May! The monk in his cell
Is bothered by the birds.
May! Already [among] the reeds
Flits the dragonfly.

May! The lady swallow
Trills upon the roof.
I feel myself reborn.
And you, are you not [also] reborn, my beauty!

May! The boy keeps watch
With an amorous zeal
In order to adorn his maiden
With four sprigs of lily of the valley.

May! One pens in his sheep!
Let us play a pastorale!
May! Joy is [everywhere]!
May! All of us come back to life!

May! What physical delight!
May! What [a] pleasant shiver!
May! I made this song!
May! [To be] set to music!

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This text was added to the website: 2020-04-12
Line count: 28
Word count: 146