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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

La dernière fête galante
Language: French (Français) 
Pour une bonne fois séparons-nous,
Très chers messieurs et si belles mesdames.
Assez comme cela d’épithalames,
Et puis là, nos plaisirs furent trop doux.

Nul remords, nul regret vrai, nul désastre !
C’est effrayant ce que nous nous sentons
D’affinités avecque les moutons
Enrubannés du pire poétastre.

Nous fûmes trop ridicules un peu
Avec nos airs de n’y toucher qu’à peine,
Le Dieu d’amour veut qu’on ait de l’haleine,
Il a raison ! Et c’est un jeune Dieu.

Séparons-nous, je vous le dis encore.
Ô que nos cœurs qui furent trop bêlants,
Dès ce jourd’hui réclament, trop hurlants,
L’embarquement pour Sodome et Gomorrhe !

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "La dernière fête galante", appears in Parallèlement [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 Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "La dernière fête galante", KSS 65 no. 3 (1941), published 1988, first performed 2000 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes, no. 3, Bath, The Sorabji Archive; new edition [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "The Last 'Fête Galante'", written 2002, first published 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "La dernière fête galante", written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2015-09-08
Line count: 16
Word count: 101

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