Upon me, o Lord, your heavy and harsh hand

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and sometimes misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Sur moy, Seigneur, ta main pesante et...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Sur moy, Seigneur, ta main pesante et dure 
Tu as jetté, las! tu m’as abatu:
Tant que plus n’ay ny force ny vertu
Pour resister aux tormens que j’endure.

Mais quoy, je sçay que tu as soin et cure
De moy ton cerf de tes verges battu
Et en ces maux dont je suis combattu
Tant seullement ta grand bonté m’asseure.

Pourtant aussi ô Dieu doux et humain
Ma cause et moy je remez en ta main
Soubz la faveur de ta douce clemence,

Mais attendant que ta sainte douceur
Face une fin à ma triste langueur,
Je te supply donne moy patience.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
sometimes misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

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

by Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Sur moy, Seigneur, ta main pesante et dure", published 1578 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from 25 Chansons à 4 parties, Livre 3, no. 15 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 103

Upon me, o Lord, your heavy and harsh...

Language: English after the French (Français)

Upon me, o Lord, your heavy and harsh hand
You’ve thrown: alas, you’ve cast me down
So far that I have neither power nor strength
To resist the torments I endure.

Yet I know that you have a care for and duty to
Me, your slave, beaten down by your rod;
And in these evils which I am fighting
Only your great goodness reassures me.

Therefore, o good and humane god,
I place my cause and myself into your hands,
Relying on the support of your sweet indulgence.

But while I wait for your holy sweetness
To make an end to my sad ailment,
I beg you to give me patience.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist and misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 111