by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by Benjamin Laroche (1797 - 1852)
Come unto these yellow sands
Language: English
Come unto these yellow sands,
[Then]1 take hands:
Curtsied when you have and kissed,
The wild waves [whist]2:
Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the [burthen]3 bear.
Hark, hark!
Bow-wow.
The watch dogs bark;
Bow-wow.
Hark, hark!
I hear the strain of strutting Chanticleer
Cry, Cock-a-diddle dow.
Come unto these yellow sands,
[Then]1 take hands:
Curtsied when you have and kissed,
The wild waves [whist]2:
Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the [burthen]3 bear.
[ ... ]
A. Beach sets stanza 1
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View text without footnotes1 Bacon, Beach, Quilter: "And then"
2 Bacon: "shist"
3 Bacon: "burden"
Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, scene 2
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Andrea Maffei) , no title, first published 1869
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
- FRE French (Français) (Guy de Pourtalès)
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
- FRE French (Français) (Maurice Bouchor)
- SWE Swedish (Svenska) (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 53
Chant de la nymphe des eaux See original
Language: French (Français) after the English
Le ciel est pur, le sable est doux,
Venez fouler ce beau rivage !
Venez en rond vous joindre à nous,
Les vents se taisent sur la plage.
Dansez, dansez, embrassez-vous !
Le ciel est pur, le sable est doux.
Entendez-vous ce bruit lointain ?
C'est du chien l'aboiement sonore,
Le coq a chanté ce matin :
Sa voix a salué l'aurore.
Dansez, dansez, embrassez-vous !
Le ciel est pur, le sable est doux.
Ton père a le sort le plus beau :
La vaste mer est son tombeau ;
Ses yeux ce sont des perles fines ;
Ses os sont changés en corail.
Tout son corps, merveilleux travail,
A pris mille formes marines,
Ecoute le chant des ondines !
Entends leurs cloches de cristal,
Mélée à leurs voix argentines,
Sonner pour lui le glas fatal !
Le ciel est pur, le sable est doux,
Venez fouler ce beau rivage !
Venez en rond vous joindre à nous,
Les vents se taisent sur la plage.
Dansez, dansez, embrassez-vous !
Le ciel est pur, le sable est doux.
...
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3,1 of the original text.
Composition:
- Set to music by Émile Guimet (1836 - 1918), "Chant de la nymphe des eaux", stanzas 1-3,1 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons d'amour, no. 21, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerck
Text Authorship:
- by Benjamin Laroche (1797 - 1852), no title
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, scene 2
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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2016-08-06
Line count: 22
Word count: 127