Sweet hawthorn, green

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Bel aubepin verdissant

(Sung text for setting by C. Janequin)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Bel aubespin verdissant,
  Fleurissant
Le long de ce beau rivage,
Tu es vestu jusq'au bas
  Des longs bras
D'une lambrunche sauvage.

Deux camps drillantz de fourmis
  Se sont mis
En garnison soubz ta souche ;
Et dans ton tronc mi-mangé,
  Arrangé,
Les avettes ont leur couche.

Le gentil rossignolet
  Nouvelet,
Avecque sa bien aymée,
Pour ses amours aleger
  Vient loger
Tous les ans en ta ramée:

 ... 

Or vy, gentil aubespin,
  Vy sans fin,
Vy sans que jamais tonnerre,
Ou la coignée, ou les vens,
  Ou les tems
Te puisse ruer par terre.

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3,5 of the original text.

Note: in stanza 1, line 4, word 5 has the typo "bras" instead of "bas" in Janequin's score.

Composition:

Clement Janequin

Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Ode", appears in Nouvelle continuation des Amours, first published 1556

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ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
Line count: 30
Word count: 124

Sweet hawthorn, green

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Janequin)

See original

Language: English after the French (Français)

Sweet hawthorn, green
Flourishing
Beside this fair river bank
You are clothed right to the end
Of your long arms 
With wild ivy.

Two parties of burrowing ants
Are placed
Like decoration beneath your stump;
And in your half-eaten trunk
Established,
The bees have their bed.

The sweet little,
Young little nightingale
With his beloved
To make light of love's work
Comes to live
Each year in your branches.

 ... 

So live sweet hawthorn
Kive without end
Live without ever thunder
Or the axe or the wind
Or time
Being able to bring you crashing to the ground.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3,5 of the original text.

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This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
Line count: 30
Word count: 128