Sisters, let us love | Here, my life is a limpid brook

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by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Aimons mes sœurs

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): ENG

Ma vie en ce séjour
Est un ruisseau limpide
Qui coule sur la mousse
Et reflète le jour.
Aimons mes soeurs, aimons, car la vie est rapide
Et le temps est perdu qui passe sans amour.

Authorship:

by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889) [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 Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Aimons mes sœurs", CG 1b (1851), first performed 1851 [ voice and piano ], from opera Sapho [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Sisters, let us love", copyright © 2018, (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: 6
Word count: 36

Sisters, let us love

Language: English after the French (Français)

Here, my life is a limpid brook
which flows amongst the moss
and reflects the day.
Sisters, let us love, for life is fleeting,
and time is lost which is spent without love.

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Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2018 by Andrew Schneider, (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 French (Français) by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889)

This text was added to the website: 2018-05-17
Line count: 5
Word count: 33