Viii - Let Us Go To The Rose Lyrics - Singles - Current 93

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."