Current 93 Where The Long Shadows Fall Lyrics

Where The Long Shadows Fall Lyrics

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
Qui ce matin avait déclosé
Sa robe
de poupre au soleil
A point perdu cette vêprée
Les plis de sa robe
pourprée
Et son teint au vôtre pareil
Las!  Voyez comme en peu
d'espace
Mignonne, elle a dessus la place
Las!  las!  ses beautés
laissé choir!
O vraiment marâtre est Nature
Puisqu'une telle fleur
ne dure
Que du matin jusques au soir!
Donc, si vois me croyez,
mignonne
Tandis que votre âge fleuronne
En sa plus verte
nouveauté
Cueillez votre jeunesse:
Comme à cette fleur, la
vieillesse
Fera ternir votre beauté
"The old willows wrecked
again and again in the hold of the woods held
 in close confinement all
round into the struggle for existance where
 the streams were constantly
taken from their course by the roots of the
 old trees in the woods allowing
no mill stream the free course through
 until the whole of these fine old
trees had got their whole water
 course directed by their own roots into
each others roots in their own
 devious ways & so each time the bad
weather conditions came the dell of
 the old popular willows received the
whole rainfall & gave the roots of
 the old popular trees the worst
conditions they could not recover from.
 The result was when the bad storms
swept the ground downhill the whole
 of the upright branches of the populars
were wrecked & wrenched off as
 none had sufficient root hold to do any
good in holding as against the
 winds forcing both root & trunks &
branches to give way.  The ultimate
 result was as stated the cracking down
of the branches & the breaking
 off of the main trunk as it had no side
branches to help its leaves to
 support the whole tree.  This gave the
stubble growth of enforcing the
 trunk low down near the ground to spray out
the small side branches &
 to develope in the trunk the further strength
to enlarge the top of the
 trunk to enable the heavy branch growth to
develop & to give out a
 large number of spray branches in all
directions to keep control of the
 wind and also to stop the wind from
further to destroy the old trees in
 its course the winds followed the well
streams & then got the clear run
 free of the trees until a run of heavy
old tree trunks guided them out
 again into the ground where the rising
ground destroyed them by holding
 them in face clear of the winds the night
mist."