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Cupid doesn’t give a toss

To change our passing affair into real love
wouldn’t have taken much,
but that day Venus was distracted ,
there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.
 
Days when he plays at being a nuisance1,
when the courtly arrows he fires at us
are blunted at the tip,
there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.
 
Dedicating himself to other imbeciles,
he had no time to pay attention to us
with his bow and all his implements,
there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.
 
We tried, without him, to get things going,
We rolled around on the soft grass, but you
lost your virtue, but not your head,
there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.
 
While you gave me permission for everything,
your heart, alas, wasn’t in the game;
the sacred fire was conspicuous by its absence,
there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.
 
We plucked petals on twenty daisies,
twenty times it ended on "she loves me not".
And our poor idyll went under2,
there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.
 
When you go to the woods to improve your love-life,
young gallants3, may heaven help4 you,
I didn’t have that luck, and I regret it,
there are days when Cupid doesn’t give a toss.
 
  • 1. like flies buzzing around a carriage
  • 2. lit: made a failure
  • 3. or: lusty youngsters
  • 4. lit: be with
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Torpedo23Torpedo23    Sâmbătă, 20/11/2021 - 03:50

Hey Tom,
Pretty good translation with helpful footnotes (:
Just a note: "avoir l'heur de" doesn't me "not to have time," but rather "not to have the pleasure or luck to do smthg." See https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/heur/39842. "Heure" and "Heur" are indeed two different words (not simply the same word with two different spellings)
Best,
- Torp