Hyde Park
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Les Faiseurs de religion
Prêchaient dans le brouillard
Les ombres près de qui nous passions
Jouaient à collin maillard
À soixante-dix ans
Joues fraîches de petits enfants
Venez venez Eléonore
Et que sais-je encore
Regardez venir les cyclopes
Les pipes s'envolaient
Mais envolez-vous-en
Regards impénitents
Et l'Europe l'Europe
Regards sacrés
Mains enamourées
Et les amants s'aimèrent
Tant que prêcheurs prêchèrent
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- ENG English (Marian Nelson) , "Hyde Park", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 60
Hyde Park
Language: English  after the French (Français)
The makers of religion
preached in the fog
The shadows we passed by
Played blind man’s bluff
At seventy years of age
Fresh cheeks of little children
Come come Eleonor
And what else do I know
Watch the cyclops come
The pipes flew away
But fly away
unrepentant gazes
and Europe Europe
Sacred gazes
Enamoured hands
And the lovers loved each other
For as long as preachers preached.
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2014 by Marian Nelson, (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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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-25
Line count: 17
Word count: 68