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Translation (FULL VERSION) of the Canticle: Scarborough Fair by T. Wignesan
by T. Wignesan → (All Poetry by T. Wignesan)
Friday, April 12, 2019    Rated "G" by the Author.
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A farewell to "love" and "arms" from the front-line trenches...


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La Fête foraine de Scarborough (La Version complète)

For the medieval English poet and Simon and Garfunkel
- In admiration -

Allez-vous à Scarborough fête foraine ?
(Sur la côte d'une colline dans le vert intense d'une forêt)
Persil, sauge, romarin et thym
Parlez de moi à une fille d'antan
(Suivant un passereau sur la terre comblée de la neige)
Elle fut jadis mon amie intime

Dites-lui de me coudre un Cambric chemise
(Couvertures et linge du lit l'enfant de la montagne)
Persil, sauge, romarin et thym
Sans bordure ni de la finesse
(Dormait-il ne rendant pas compte de l'appel du clarion)
Et sûr elle restera mon amie intime

Dites : faites-le dans une ruelle de sycomore/recoltez-le dans une faucille en cuir*
(Sur la côte d'une colline, les feuilles des arbres éparpillées)
Persil, sauge, romarin et thym
Et le recueillir dans un panier des fleurs/dans un bouquet de bruyère**
(En lavant la tombe avec des larmes en argent)
Ainsi elle restera mon amie intime

Dites : lavez-le dans ce puit sec
(Un soldat nettoie et fait briller son fusil)
Persil, sauge, romarin et thym
Où l'eau ne monte pas ni pluie tombe raide
(La guerre résonne, éclatant parmi des bataillons sanglantes)
Ainsi elle restera mon amie intime

Dites : trouvez-lui un acre de terre
(Les généraux requirent leurs soldats de tuer)
Persil, sauge, romarin et thym
Entre les flots et sur le rivage sableux
(Et de batailler pour une cause dont ils avaient depuis longtemps bien oublié)
Ainsi soit-elle mon amie intime


NOTES
*Variant version of the line : " Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather "
** Variant version : " And gather it all in a bunch of heather "
Persil/Parsley stands for " comfort " ; sauge/sage for " strength " ; romarin/rosemary for " love " and thym/thyme for " courage "

Scarborough Fair

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
For once she was a true love of mine

Have her make me a cambric shirt
(Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without no seam nor fine needle work
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
And then she'll be a true love of mine


Tell her to weave it in a sycamore wood lane
(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And gather it all with a basket of flowers
(Washes the grave with silvery tears)
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Have her wash it in yonder dry well
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Where water ne'er sprung nor drop of rain fell
(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
And then she'll be a true love of mine

Have her find me an acre of land
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the sea foam and over the sand
(And fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
And then she'll be a true love of mine


© Translation : T. Wignesan - Paris, April 12, 2019

 

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 Reviews of "Translation (FULL VERSION) of the Canticle: Scarborough Fair by T. Wignesan"
Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on April 16, 2019

as always a compelling read



never stop writing

m


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