Pour unendingly | Corydon, pour wine unendingly

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Corydon, verse sans fin

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

[Corydon,] verse sans fin
Dedans mon verre du vin,
Afin qu'endormir je face
Un procés qui me tirace
Le coeur et l'ame plus fort
Qu'un limier un sanglier mort.

Après ce procés ici
Jamais peine ne souci,
Ne feront que je me dueille:
Aussi bien, vueille ou non vueille,
Sans faire icy long sejour
Il faut que je meure un jour.

Le long vivre me déplaist:
Mal-heureux l'homme qui est 
Accablé de la vieillesse!
Quand je perdray la jeunesse,
Je veux mourir tout soudain,
Sans languir au lendemain.

Ce-pendant verse sans fin
Dedans mon verre du vin,
Afin qu'endormir je face
Un procés qui me tirace
Le coeur et l'ame plus fort
Qu'un limier un sanglier mort.

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Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Verse sans fin" [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 Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), "Verse sans fin", published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 30, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [sung text not yet checked]
by Philippe de Monte (1521 - 1603), "Corydon" [sung text not yet checked]
by Julien Tiersot (1857 - 1936), "Corydon", published 1924 [ vocal quartet and piano ], from Chansons de Ronsard, no. 14, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel; a realization of a melody by Philippe de Monte [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Pour unendingly", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-07-25
Line count: 24
Word count: 117

Pour unendingly

Language: English after the French (Français)

[Corydon,] pour wine unendingly
Into my glass!
In order to sleep, I face
A trial which gnaws at
My heart and soul more strongly
Than a bloodhound does a dead boar.

After this trial
Neither pain nor care
Will ever make me grieve for myself;
Just so, wish it or not, 
I shall have to die one day
Without making a long stay here.

Living long displeases me:
Unfortunate the man who is 
Burdened by old age!
When I lose my youth,
I want to die all of a sudden
Without dragging on day after day.

So - pour wine unendingly
Into my glass!
In order to sleep, I face
A trial which gnaws at
My heart and soul more strongly
Than a bloodhound does a dead boar.

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This text was added to the website: 2012-07-25
Line count: 24
Word count: 127