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Cessez mortels de soupirer

from Amour Cruel by Emi Ferguson

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lyrics

Cessez mortels de soupirer,
Cette beauté n’est pas mortelle;
Il est permis de l’adorer,
Mais non pas d’être amoureux d’elle.
Les Dieux tant seulement
Peuvent aimer si hautement.

Qui est celui qui ne voit pas
Que pour elle la terre est belle,
Que les fleurs naissent sous ses pas,
Que le jour luit plus beau pour elle,
Et les dieux seulement
Dignes d’aimer si hautement?

Bref ces divines qualités
Dont le ciel orna sa naissance,
Déffendent même aux déités
Non de l’aimer, mais l’espérance
D’obtenir en l’aimant
Sinon qu’un glorieux tourment.



Mortals, stop your sighing,
This beauty is not mortal;
It is permissible to love her,
But you cannot be in love with her.
Only the gods
Can love so exaltedly.

Who is the one that cannot see
That earth is beautiful because of her,
That flowers bloom under her steps,
That the day is brighter just for her,
And that the the gods only
Are worthy to love so exaltedly?

In fact the divine qualities
With which heaven adorned her birth,
Forbid even to the gods,
Not to love her, but to have hope
To obtain through loving her
Anything but a glorious torment.

credits

from Amour Cruel, released September 14, 2017
Emi Ferguson - vocals and flutes
Jordan Dodson - classical guitar
Paul Holmes Morton - theorbo
Doug Balliett - baroque bass and electric bass
Samuel Budish - percussion

Music written and arranged by Emi Ferguson
Produced by Emi Ferguson and Patrick McMinn
Edited and Mixed by Emi Ferguson and Patrick McMinn

Recorded at The Bunker Studio by Todd Carder and James Krivchenia
Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge, assisted by Chris Allgood
Studio Assistant Percussion Producer Greg LaRosa
Assistant produced by Nicholas Csicsko

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Emi Ferguson New York, New York

Emi Ferguson is a singer, flute player, composer, and producer who refuses to accept that musical genres be isolated. Trained at Juilliard, Emi now teaches there in addition to performing her music and the classics worldwide.

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