Revecy venir du Printans
Text by Jean Antoine de Baïf
Music by Claude le Jeune

Revecy venir du Printans.
L’amoureuz’ et belle saizon.

Le courant des eaus recherchant,
Le canal d’été s’éclaircît;
Et la mer calme de ces flots,
Amolit le triste courrous:
Le Canard s’égay’ se plonjant,
Et se lave coint dedans l’eau.
Et la grû’ qui fourche son vol,
Retraverse l’air et s’en va.

(Refrain)

Le Soleil éclaire luizant,
D’une plus séreine clairté:
Du nuage l’ombre s’enfuit,
Qui se ioû’ et court et noircît.
Et foretz et champs et coutaus,
Le labeur humain reverdît,
Et la prê’ découvre ses fleurs.

(Refrain)

De Venus le filz Cupidon,
L’univers semant de ses trais,
De sa flamme va réchaufér.
Animaus, qui volet en l’air,
Animaus, qui rampet au chams
Animaus, qui naget auz eaus
Ce qui mesmement ne sent pas,
Amoureux se fond de plaizir.

(Refrain)

Rion aussi nous: et cherchon
Les ébas et ieus du Printans:
Toute chose rit de plaizir:
Sélébron la gaye saizon.

(Refrain)

Here again comes the Spring,
the amorous and fair season.

The currents of water that seek
The canal in summer become clearer;
And the sea calms her waves,
softens the sad anger.
The duck, elated, dives in,
And washes itself happily in the water.
And the crane breaks its path,
Crosses back and flies away.

(Refrain)

The sun shines brightly
with a most serene clarity:
From the cloud the shadow flies
and plays and runs and darkens.
And forests and fields and hillsides,
human labor makes green again,
and the prairie unveils its flowers.

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From Venus’ son, Cupid,
the universe is seeded in milk,
is warned by his flames.
Animals that fly in the air,
animals that slither in the fields,
animals that swim in the seas,
even those that feel not,
once in love, are melted by pleasure.

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So let us laugh: and let us seek out
the frolicking and the games of Spring:
All the world laughs in pleasure:
Let us celebrate the happy season.

(Refrain)