Qu'on voile les tambours que le prêtre s'avance.
À genoux, compagnons, tête nue, et silence.
Qu'on dise devant nous la prière des morts.
Nous voulons au tombeau porter le capitaine.
Il est mort en soldat sur la terre chrétienne.
L'âme appartient à Dieu ; l'armée aura le corps.

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• by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), no title, appears in Premières poésies, in La Coupe et les Lèvres, excerpt from Act IV, scene 1 (Le Chœur) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918), "Pour les funérailles d'un soldat", 1912 [ baritone, chorus, and piano (3 hands) ]
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