Seigneur,
donnez-moi d'être la lampe
qui brûle, ardente et paisible
à tes pieds.
Que ton amour,
seigneur,
soit le rhum qui m'enivre
éternellement.
Déchirante mélancolie que de remuer la cendre des souvenirs.
Passé, cruel passé, et combien émouvant le cri de Lamartine :
«ô temps suspends ton vol».
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Confirmed with Carl Brouard, Pages Retrouvées, Port-au-Prince: Panorama Editions, 1963, page 178.
Note for the last line: «ô temps suspends ton vol» This is a reference to and quotation from Alphonse de Lamartine's famous poem, "Le Lac"
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- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Prayer", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Lord,
[allow] me to be the lamp
which burns, intense and peaceful,
at your feet.
That your love,
Lord,
may be the rum which intoxicates me
eternally.
Harrowing melancholy [with which] to stir the ashes of memories.
Past, cruel past, and how moving Lamartine's cry:
“oh time, pause your flight.”
