Mais Moi Je Vis La Vie en Rouge + 

Your soul is like a purple flower, + 

Mary, whose eyes are amethyst, + 

Whose lips are like red wine when kist, + 

With sweet life and sweet death for dower; + 

There are who will have none of these, + 

Who walk in peace all day upright, + 

And in the night pray on their knees⁠— + 

The pleasures of the life in white. + 

All cloth’d with virtues manifold + 

Are these⁠—their souls are like white snow; + 

Fair love, around thy heart I know + 

My heart is bound with chains of gold. + 

Sweet youths whose life is in the spring, + 

The water is all wine they drink, + 

They sorrow not at anything⁠— + 

The pleasures of the life in pink. + 

Your gold hair’s like an aureole, + 

Your lips are gold wine bought and sold, + 

Pure golden kisses bought for gold; + 

Each breast is like a golden bowl. + 

These things are for a scorn to those + 

That read great books both night and day, + 

That say, Joy dieth as the rose⁠— + 

The pleasures of the life in gray. + 

Sweet youths, white ladies, scholars sour, + 

Rejoice, and hasten on your way; + 

Mary, whose skin is white as whey, + 

Your soul is like a purple flower. + 