Vous m'avez introduit chez un peuple robuste
Dont, par d'Etchegoyen, j'hérite [de]1 mon sang,
Et l'on me couchera dans cette terre fruste
Où les morts [deviendront]2 plus beaux que les vivants.

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Confirmed with Francis Jammes, Le Troisième livre de quatrains, Paris, Mercure de France, 1924, Page 22.

¹ omitted by Delannoy.
² Delannoy: "seront"

Text Authorship:

• by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Résurrection" [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 Marcel Delannoy (1898 - 1962), "Résurrection", 1935, published 1936, copyright © 1936 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Cinq Quatrains de Francis Jammes, no. 1, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

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