À Leukon | Cueille les roses, les roses sont en fleurs

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by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719 - 1803)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Rosen pflücke, Rosen blühn

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT FRE NOR

Rosen pflücke, Rosen blühn,
Morgen ist nicht heut!
Keine Stunde laß entfliehn,
Flüchtig ist die Zeit.

[Trink, küsse! Sieh]¹ es ist 
Heut Gelegenheit!
Weißt du, wo du morgen bist?
Flüchtig ist die Zeit.

Aufschub einer guten Tat
Hat schon oft [gereut]²!
Hurtig leben ist mein Rat,
Flüchtig ist die Zeit.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• A. Berg • H. Nägeli

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¹ Berg, Nägeli: "Trink und küsse: sieh"
² Berg: "bereut"

Text Authorship:

by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719 - 1803), "An Leukon" [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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Leukon", alternate title: "An Leukon", 1908, published 1937 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 79 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Georg Nägeli (1773 - 1836), "Guter Rath", c1795-7, published 1797 [ voice and piano ], in Lieder in Musik gesetzt, Zürich: im Verlage des Verfassers, pages 28-29 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "À Leukon", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Til Leukon", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Jakob Kellner

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 52

À Leukon

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Cueille les roses, les roses sont en fleurs,
Demain n'est pas aujourd'hui !
Ne laisse aucune heure s'échapper,
Le temps est fugitif !

Bois et donne des baisers :
Regarde, aujourd'hui c'est l'occasion ;
Sais-tu où tu seras demain ?
Le temps est fugitif !

L'ajournement d'une bonne action
A déjà souvent conduit au remords.
Mon conseil est de vivre vite,
Le temps est fugitif !

Note: Leukon est un personnage de la mythologie, mais leukos veut dire blanc en grec, et Alban vient du latin albus qui veut aussi dire blanc.

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Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2009 by Guy Laffaille, (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 German (Deutsch) by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719 - 1803), "An Leukon"
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This text was added to the website: 2009-09-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 59