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Quand je mourrai, enterrez moi à la Croix des Martyrs sans pompes et sans vains discours. Dans l'église, célébrez humblement mes funérailles Cet enclos silencieux si paisible, si pieux et que le vaniteux raille sera doux à mes désirs apaisés. De neigeux jasmins (tels d'odorants souvenirs plutôt d'amoureuses mains) neigeront dessus ma tombe où nulle blanche colombe ne se viendra poser. Pour compagnons, j'aurai l’odeur des bois et d'autres fleurs ainsi que mes vieilles amours.
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Confirmed with Carl Brouard, Pages retrouvées, Port-au-Prince: Panorama Editions, 1963, page 29.
Text Authorship:
- by Carl Brouard (1902 - 1965), "Élégie", written 1927, appears in Pages retrouvées [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "When I am dead", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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When I am dead, bury me at the Cross of the Martyrs without ceremony and without vain speeches. In the church, celebrate my funeral humbly This silent plot so peaceful, so pious, and which the vain one mocks, will be kind to my appeased desires. Snowy jasmines (such fragrant memories, [such] amorous hands) snow upon my tomb where no white dove shall come to land. For companions, I will have the scent of the woods and of other flowers along with my old loves.
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- a text in French (Français) by Carl Brouard (1902 - 1965), "Élégie", written 1927, appears in Pages retrouvées
This text was added to the website: 2020-12-17
Line count: 18
Word count: 84