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by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

O do not love too long

(Sung text for setting by N. Rorem)

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Language: English

Our translations: FRE

Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long, 
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song. 

All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known 
Their own thought from the other's,
We were so much at one. 

But O, in a minute he changed --
O do not love too long, 
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.

Composition:

Ned Rorem

Text Authorship:

by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "O do not love too long", appears in In the Seven Woods, first published 1904

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FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Oh, n'aime pas trop longtemps", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 72

Oh, n'aime pas trop longtemps

(Sung text translation for setting by N. Rorem)

See original

Language: French (Français) after the English

Mon amour, n'aime pas trop longtemps :
J' ai aimé longtemps et longtemps,
Et fini par passer de mode,
Comme une vieille chanson.

Pendant toutes les années de notre jeunesse
Aucun de nous n'aurait pu distinguer
Ses propres pensées de celles de l'autre,
Tant nous étions un.

Mais oh, il a changé en une minute –
Oh, n'aime pas trop longtemps
Ou tu finiras par passer de mode,
Comme une vieille chanson.

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a text in English by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "O do not love too long", appears in In the Seven Woods, first published 1904
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