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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Ha seigneur Dieu, que de graces écloses

(Sung text for setting by A. Bertrand)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Ha, seigneur dieu, que de graces écloses
Dans le jardin de ce sein verdelet,
Enflent le rond de deus gazons de lait,
Où des Amours les fléches sont encloses!

Je me transforme en cent metamorfoses,
Quand je te voi, petit mont jumelet,
Ains du printans un rosier nouvelet,
Qui le matin caresse de ses roses.

S'Europe avoit l'estomac aussi beau,
De t'estre fait, Jupiter, un toreau,
Je te pardonne. Hé, que ne sui-je puce!

La baisotant, tous les jours je mordrois
Ses beaus tetins, mais la nuit je voudrois
Que rechanger en homme je me pusse.

Composition:

Anthoine de Bertrand

Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 1

Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), appears in Les Amours (1553), no. 3, first published 1553

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ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Oh Lord God, how many graces blossoming", 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: 14
Word count: 97

Oh Lord God, how many graces blossoming

(Sung text translation for setting by A. Bertrand)

See original

Language: English after the French (Français)

Oh Lord God, how many graces blossoming
In the garden of this ripe breast
Swell the roundness of the two milky lawns
Where the arrows of Love are enclosed!

I change myself into a hundred different forms
When I see you, small twin mounds,
Like a young rose-bush in spring
Which the morning caresses with its own rose.

If Europa had so fine a breast
That you made yourself, Jupiter, into a bull
Then I pardon you. Oh, that I could be a flea

Giving her little kisses, all day long I would nibble
Her beautiful nipples, but at night I'd wish
That I could change back into a man.

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a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), appears in Les Amours (1553), no. 3, first published 1553
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This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 14
Word count: 111