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by Rémy Belleau (1527/8 - 1577)

Au printemps
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Voyez comme à l'entrée
Du printemps gracieux
La brigade sacrée
Des Grâces et des Dieux,
Le giron et le sein
Porte, de roses plein!

Voyez comme les ondes
De l'escumeuse mer
Et les rides profondes
Commencent à calmer,
Et cent sortes d'oiseaux
Se jouent dans les eaux!

Voyez comme la grue
Est de-jà de retour,
Et le soleil sans nue
Nous allume le jour,
Et chasse l'ombre épais
Du trait de ses beaux rais!

Voyez, en apparance,
Nos journaliers labeurs
Comme la terre avance
Et enfante les fleurs.
Voyez arbres fruitiers
Poindre, et les oliviers!

Voyez comme on couronne
La vineuse liqueur,
Quant l'attente fleuronne
Du grain, en sa verdeur,
Sous les ombres issans
Des rameaux verdissans!

Text Authorship:

  • by Rémy Belleau (1527/8 - 1577) [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 Maurice Emmanuel (1862 - 1938), "Au printemps", op. 13 no. 1 (1911), published 1914 [voice, piano and flute], from Trois odelettes anacréontiques, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Durand [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "In the spring", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Olivier Gratzer

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 30
Word count: 117

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