Par cinq brasses, ton père gît

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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

A sea dirge

(Sung text for setting by C. Ives)

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Language: English

Our translations: DUT FIN FRE GER IRI ITA NOR

Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
 ... 
Hark! now I hear them, - ding-dong bell.

Composition:

Charles Edward Ives

Eleven Songs and Two Harmonizations

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):

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "Vijf vadem diep", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy de Pourtalès)
FRE French (Français) (Maurice Bouchor)
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (David Paley) , "Voll Faden fünf", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Tuo padre giace a una profondità di cinque tese", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Andrea Maffei) , no title, first published 1869
NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Arild Bakke) , "På fem favner", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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: 9
Word count: 49

Par cinq brasses, ton père gît

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Ives)

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Language: French (Français) after the English

Par cinq brasses, ton père gît,
De ses os le corail est fait ;
Ce sont les perles qui étaient ses yeux :
Rien de lui qui ne soit périssable,
Mais subit le flot marin qui le transforme
En quelque chose de riche et étrange.
Les nymphes marines sonnent son glas chaque heure :
Ding, dong !
Écoutez ! maintenant je les entends, ding, dong, dong !

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