Lydé | Come! It is a holiday. Let us drink generously

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by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Lydé

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG SPA

Viens ! C'est le jour d'un Dieu. Puisons avec largesse
  Le Cécube clos au cellier.
Fière Lydé, permets au plaisir familier
  D'amollir un peu ta sagesse.

L'heure fuit, l'horizon rougit sous le soleil,
  Hâte-toi. L'amphore remplie
Sous Bibulus consul, repose ensevelie:
  Trouble son antique sommeil.

Je chanterai les flots amers, la verte tresse
  Des Néréides; toi, Lydé,
Sur ta lyre enlacée à ton bras accoudé
  Chante Diane chasseresse.

Puis nous dirons Vénus et son char attelé
  De cygnes qu'un lieu d'or guide,
Les Cyclades, Paphos, et tes rives, ô Gnide !
  Puis, un hymne au ciel étoilé.

Text Authorship:

by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894), "Lydé", written 1852, appears in Poèmes antiques, in Études latines, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Librairie Marc Ducloux, first published 1852 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Lydé", published 1900, from Études Latines, no. 5, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961), "Lydé", 1909, published 1920 [ high voice and piano ], from Études latines sur des poésies de Leconte de Lisle, no. 5, Éd. René Gilles [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Lydé", copyright © 2016
SPA Spanish (Español) (José Miguel Llata) , "Lydé", copyright © 2013, (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.
Line count: 16
Word count: 95

Lydé

Language: English after the French (Français)

Come! It is a holiday. Let us drink generously
Of Caecuban wine from the cellar.
Proud Lydé, permit a familiar pleasure
To soften your good sense a little.
 
Time flies, the horizon reddens under the sun;
Hurry. The amphora, filled
Under the consulship of Bibulus, lies buried:
Disturb its ancient sleep.
 
I will sing of bitter floods, of the green tresses
Of the Nereids; you, Lydé,
On the lyre that you embrace in your arms,
You will sing of Diana the Huntress.

Then we will call to Venus and her chariot
Harnessed to swans and directed by golden reins,
The Cyclades, Paphos, and your shores, O Gnidus!
Then we will sing a hymn to the starlit sky.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2016 by Emily Ezust
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894), "Lydé", written 1852, appears in Poèmes antiques, in Études latines, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Librairie Marc Ducloux, first published 1852
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This text was added to the website: 2016-10-29
Line count: 16
Word count: 117