Grafschrift op een tekst van Malherbe | Mooie ziel, die eens mijn fakkel was

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by François de Malherbe (1555 - 1628)

Translation © by Sander Kobussen

Belle âme qui fus mon flambeau

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: DUT ENG GER

Belle âme qui fus mon flambeau,
Reçois l'honneur qu'en ce tombeau
[Je suis obligé de]¹ te rendre ;
Ce que je fais te sert de peu ;
Mais au moins tu vois en la cendre
[Comme j'en conserve]² le feu.

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• F. Poulenc

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Malherbe, volume 1, ed. by M. L. Lalanne, Paris: Hachette, 1862, page 272.

¹ Poulenc: "Le devoir m'oblige à"
² Poulenc: "Que j'en aime encore"

Text Authorship:

by François de Malherbe (1555 - 1628), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Épitaphe", FP 55 (1930), published 1930 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle [sung text checked 1 time]

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Grafschrift op een tekst van Malherbe

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the French (Français)

Mooie ziel, die eens mijn fakkel was
Ontvang mijn eer hier in dit graf
Die de plicht gebiedt jou te geven.
Al wat ik doe, het brengt je niets,
Maar de as laat jou tenminste zien,
Dat ik nog steeds houd van het vuur.

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a text in French (Français) by François de Malherbe (1555 - 1628), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2019-01-20
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