Grabinschrift | Schöne Seele, die du warst meine Fackel

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by François de Malherbe (1555 - 1628)

Translation © by Ingrid Schmithüsen

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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Grabinschrift

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Schöne Seele, die du warst meine Fackel,
Empfange die Ehre, die in diesem Grab
Die Pflicht mich auffordert, dir zu erweisen,
Was ich tue, dient dir wenig,
Doch wenigsten erkennst du in der Asche,
Dass ich es immer noch liebe, das Feuer.

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This text was added to the website: 2013-06-10
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Word count: 42