La terre les eaux va buvant

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General information

Settings by composers

Fabrice Caietain
Guillaume Costeley SATB
Orlando di Lasso SAATB
Etienne du Tertre

Text and translations

French text

La terre les eaux va buvant,
L'arbre les boit par sa racine,
La mer éparse boit le vent,
Et le soleil boit la marine.

Le soleil est bu de la lune,
Tout boit soit en haut ou en bas,
Suivant cette règle commune,
Pourquoi donc ne boirons-nous pas?

English translation

Earth goes drinking the waters,
the tree drinks them through its roots,
the wide sea drinks the wind
and the sun drinks the ocean.

The sun is drunk by the moon;
all drink, be they high or low.
Following this common rule,
why then don't we have a drink?