April | April, it is your gentle hand

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by Rémy Belleau (1527/8 - 1577)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Avril

(Sung text for setting by B. Godard)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Avril, l'honneur des bois
    Et des mois :
Avril, la douce espérance
Des fruicts qui sous le coton
    Du bouton
Nourissent leur jeune enfance.

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Avril, c'est ta douce main
    Qui du sein
De la nature desserre
Une moisson de senteurs,
    Et de fleurs,
Embaumant l'Air et la Terre.

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L'aubespine et l'aiglantin,
    Et le thym,
L'œillet, le lis et les roses
En ceste belle saison,
    A foison,
Monstrent leurs robes écloses.

C'est toy courtois et gentil,
    Qui d'exil
Retires ces passagéres,
Ces arondelles qui vont,
    Et qui sont
Du printemps les messagéres.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,4,8,7 of the original text.

Composition:

Benjamin Louis Paul Godard

Text Authorship:

by Rémy Belleau (1527/8 - 1577), "Avril", written 1560, appears in La bergerie

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ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "April", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "April", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2006-03-16
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Word count: 310

April

(Sung text translation for setting by B. Godard)

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Language: English after the French (Français)

 
 
 
 















 

April, it is your gentle hand
that out of
Nature's bosom releases
a cornucopia of perfumes
and flowers
filling the air and the earth.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,4,8,7 of the original text.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2006 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in French (Français) by Rémy Belleau (1527/8 - 1577), "Avril", written 1560, appears in La bergerie
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