Alliance | If seventeen-year-old hearts

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by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Partie liée

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Si les cœurs de dix-sept ans,
Leurs amours et leurs ramages
N'existaient plus, le printemps
Ne vivrait pas davantage.

Text Authorship:

by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Partie liée", written 1923-25, appears in Les livres des quatrains, in 4. Quatrième livre, no. 16 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Jean Papineau-Couture (1916 - 2000), "Partie liée", 1947, copyright © 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains, no. 6, Montréal, Éd. Doberman-Yppan [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Alliance", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2017-01-24
Line count: 4
Word count: 19

Alliance

Language: English after the French (Français)

If seventeen-year-old hearts,
Their loves and their singing 
No longer existed, Spring
Would live on no more.

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Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2025 by Grant Hicks, (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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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Partie liée", written 1923-25, appears in Les livres des quatrains, in 4. Quatrième livre, no. 16
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This text was added to the website: 2025-09-13
Line count: 4
Word count: 17