by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
La terre les eaux va buvant L'arbre la boit par sa racine La mer éparse boit le vent et le soleil boit la marine Le soleil est bu de la lune Tout boit soit en haut ou en bas Suivant cette règle commune Pourquoi donc ne boirions nous pas?
Composition:
- Set to music by Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), no title, alternate title: "Chanson à boire", H. 184 no. 4 (1944-1945), published 1947 [ low voice and piano ], from Romances choisies, quatre chansons pour voix grave, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Salabert
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Ode Anacréontique XXXI", written 1555, appears in Les Odes, no. 31
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Earth goes on by drinking the rain", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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