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Translations available for the entire opus: ENG 

3. Ultima verba  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Oh ! quand la mort, que rien ne saurait apaiser,
Nous prendra tous les deux dans un dernier baiser
Et jettera sur nous le manteau de ses ailes,
Puissions-nous réposer sous deux pierres jumelles !
Puissent les fleurs de rose aux parfums embaumés
Sortir de nos deux corps qui se sont tant aimés,
Et nos âmes fleurir ensemble, et, sur nos tombes
Se [becqueter]1 longtemps d'amoureuses colombes !

Text Authorship:

  • by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Oh ! quand la mort", written 1845, appears in Les Stalactites, no. 5, first published 1846

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Debussy: "regarder"

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