Quand je mourrai, enterrez moi à la Croix des Martyrs sans pompes et sans vains discours. Dans l'église, célébrez humblement mes funérailles Cet enclos silencieux si paisible, si pieux et que le vaniteux raille sera doux à mes désirs apaisés. De neigeux jasmins (tels d'odorants souvenirs plutôt d'amoureuses mains) neigeront dessus ma tombe où nulle blanche colombe ne se viendra poser. Pour compagnons, j'aurai l’odeur des bois et d'autres fleurs ainsi que mes vieilles amours.
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Confirmed with Carl Brouard, Pages retrouvées, Port-au-Prince: Panorama Editions, 1963, page 29.
Authorship:
- by Carl Brouard (1902 - 1965), "Élégie", written 1927, appears in Pages retrouvées [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "When I am dead", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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