Maid on whom the three Graces

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

Translation © by David Wyatt

Pucelle, en qui la triple grace

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Pucelle, en qui la triple grace 
Prodige son rare tresor:
Pucelle, qui d’entour ta face
Descoches mille fleches d’or:

Pucelle, qui des ta naissance
Receuz par grand faveur des dieux
L’honneur la beauté la puissance
Qui t’acompagne et en tout lieu:

Vy sans jamais estre amortie
Et ton nom soit illustre et cler
Qui dit que du roc est bastie
Que force ne peut esbranler.

Et ton roc sois tousjours propice
O roc sur tous plaisant et beau,
Soutenant ce noble edifice
Seul ornement de ton coupeau.

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?), "Pucelle, en qui la triple grace", published 1578 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from 25 Chansons à 4 parties, Livre 3, no. 19 [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: 16
Word count: 87

Maid on whom the three Graces

Language: English after the French (Français)

Maid on whom the three Graces
Pour out their rare treasures,
Maid who from your face
Shoots a thousand golden arrows,

Maid who from your birth
Received by the gods’ great favour
The honour, beauty, power
Which accompany you everywhere:

Live, and never come to death,
Let your name be famous, well-known,
A name built on a rock
Which force cannot shake.

And may your rock be always favourable,
Rock above all others pleasant and fair,
Sustaining this noble monument,
Sole ornament of the summit you are.

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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: 16
Word count: 87