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Deux Mélodies

by Maurice Desrez (1882 - 1969)

2. Si la mort est le but  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Si la mort est le but, pourquoi donc sur les routes
Est-il dans les buissons de si charmantes fleurs ?
Et lorsqu'au vent d'automne elles s'envolent toutes,
Pourquoi les voir partir d'un œil mouillé de pleurs ?

Si la vie est le but, pourquoi donc sur les routes
Tant de pierres dans l'herbe et d'épines aux fleurs,
Que, pendant le voyage, hélas ! nous devons toutes
Tacher de notre sang [et]1 mouiller de nos pleurs ?

Text Authorship:

  • by Louise Angelique Bertin (1805 - 1877), "La Mort et la Vie", written 1840

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Confirmed with Anthologie féminine, Bureau des causeries familières, 1893, page 302).

1 Gounod: "ou"

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