La boule de neige
Language: French (Français) after the Latin
Je ne croyais pas que la neige renfermât du feu;
Mais, l'autre jour, Julie me jeta une boule de neige,
Et cette neige était de feu. Qu'y-a-t'il de plus froid que la neige?
Et pourtant, Julie, la lancée par tes mains embrasa mon coeur.
Où trouver à present un refuge pour m'abriter des pièges de l'Amour,
Si même cette eau glacée recèle sa flamme?
Julie, tu peux éteindre cependant l'ardeur qui me consume,
Non pas avec la neige, non pas avec la glace, mais en brûlant d'un feu pareil au mien.
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The snowball", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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The snowball
Language: English after the French (Français)
I did not think there was fire inside snow;
but the other day Julia threw a snowball at me
and that snow was fire. Is anything colder than snow?
And yet, Julia, what you threw ignited my heart.
Where now can I find a shelter to escape the traps of Love,
if there’s hidden flame even in this frozen water?
But Julia, you can quench the fire that consumes me,
not with snow or ice, but by burning with a flame equal to mine.
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This text was added to the website: 2017-08-02
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