Pour vénérer les simples jours

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

To venerate the simple days

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

To venerate the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or [me]¹
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!

To invest existence with a stately air,
Needs but to remember
That the acorn there
Is the egg of forests
For the upper air!

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• E. Bacon

E. Bacon sets stanza 1

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¹ Bacon: "I"

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Simple days", alternate title: "The simple days", published 1944, stanza 1 [ voice and piano ], from Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Pour vénérer les simples jours

Language: French (Français) after the English

Pour vénérer les simples jours
Qui mènent les saisons
Il suffit de se souvenir
Qu'à toi ou à moi
Ils peuvent prendre la bagatelle
Appelée mortalité !

Pour donner à l'existence un air majestueux
Il suffit de se souvenir
Que le Gland qui est là
Est l'œuf des forêts
Pour atteindre l'Air d'en haut !

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Translations of title(s):
"The simple days" = "Les simples jours"
"Simple days" = "Simple jours"

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Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2017 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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This text was added to the website: 2017-01-02
Line count: 11
Word count: 53