Aglaia | I drink the cold water in jerks

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by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Aglaé

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Je bois l'eau froide par saccades 
Coup de couteau je bois encor 
O lourde lourde cavalcade 
Galope dans la nuit du corps 

Le jet d'eau boîte, éclabousse 
le massif de bégonias 
On dirait que dans l'herbe il y a 
Des morceaux mouillés de langouste 

Aux profondeurs d'un océan 
Deux poissons aux belles ouoes 
chantent sur un arbre blanc 
Mais leur chanson n'est pas ouoe 

Tu n'auras jamais Amphitrite 
Ce joli cortège de truites

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Text Authorship:

by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) [author's text not yet checked 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 Georges Auric (1899 - 1983), "Aglaé", 1918, published 1919 [ medium voice and piano ], from Huit poèmes de Jean Cocteau, no. 4, Paris, E. Demets [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Aglaia", copyright © 2016, (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: 14
Word count: 73

Aglaia

Language: English after the French (Français)

I drink the cold water in jerks 
Knife thrust I take another drink
Oh heavy heavy cavalcade [that]
Gallops bodily at night

The water sprinkler splashes 
the mass of begonias 
One might say that there are in the grass
Wet pieces of lobster 

In the depths of an ocean 
two fish with good ouoes 
sing in a white tree 
But their song isn't ouoe 

You’ll never have Amphitrite
This nice procession of trout

Translator's notes:
Title, "Aglaia" - one of the Muses, the name of a French frigate, and also the genus of most mahogany trees
Line 4-1: "Amphitrite" - a sea goodess and wife of Poseidon, the personification of the sea itself

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a text in French (Français) by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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This text was added to the website: 2016-04-14
Line count: 14
Word count: 73