Chœur
 Ma paupière étant assoupie,
 J'ai vu l'ange au glaive de feu
 M'apparaître envoyé par Dieu. 
 Il m'a dit: « Tout sceptre est impie. 
 « Que la servitude s'expie ! 
 « Je suis l'âme, sois l'instrument. 
 « Va, massacrant et consumant 
     « Aveuglément ! »

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• by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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• by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Sabre en main", op. 26b no. 9 (1891), published 1892 [ tenor and chorus and piano ], from cantata Nuit persane, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Durand
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