Lyrics Let Us Go to the Rose - 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 vous me croyez, mignonne
Tandis que votre âge fleuronne
En sa plus verte nouveaut
Cueillez, 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 existence 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 way and so each time the bad weather conditions
Came the dell of the old popular willows received the whole rainfall
And 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 and
Wrenched off as none had sufficient root hold to do any good in
Holding as against the winds forcing both
Root and trunks and branches to give way.
The ultimate result was as stated the cracking down of the branches
And 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 and to develop in the
Trunk the further strength to enlarge the top of the trunk to enable
The heavy branch growth to develop and 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 and 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.