Thursday, November 30, 2023

 

Good Wishes

Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), Odes 5.34 (to Nicholas de Verdun), lines 73-84, 91-96 (tr. D.B. Wyndham Lewis):
May God bless your house with fine children a-plenty, born of your beautiful and virtuous wife; may peace reign in your bed, and may the noise of domestic jars be very far from you!

May you be gay, content, and joyous, neither coveting nor envying those things which eat away our souls. May you fly all kind of troubles and take no heed of those misfortunes predicted by Nostradamus!

[....]

Have no care of the morrow, but, holding to-day close in your grasp, live out the days happily as they come to you, for how do you know if you shall see another sun returning?

Dieu vueille benir ta maison
De beaux enfans naiz à foison
De ta femme belle et pudique:        75
La Concorde habite en ton lit,
Et bien loin de toy soit le bruit
De toute noise domestique.

Sois gaillard, dispost, et joyeux,
Ny convoiteux ny soucieux        80
Des choses qui nous rongent l'ame;
Fuy toutes sortes de douleurs,
Et ne pren soucy des malheurs
Qui sont predits par Nostradame.

[....]

N'ayes soucy du lendemain,
Mais serrant le temps en la main,
Vy joyeusement la journée
Et l'heure en laquelle seras:
Et que sçais-tu si tu verras        95
L'autre lumiere retournée?



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