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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 !
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: 104
For a good while we have been apart, my dear ladies and gentlemen, rather like a separation in marriage, and then, our delights were too sweet. No remorse, no real regret, no disaster! It is frightening to contemplate the affinities we share with the sheep that the worst verse-monger festoons with ribbons. We were a little too absurd with our expressions as though butter would scarcely melt in our mouths. The God of love willed that one should take breath, and he was right! And this is a young God. We have been apart, I tell you once more. O, that our overly bleating hearts, from this day forth, cry out just as clamorously to set off for Sodom and Gomorrah!
Confirmed with an original Microsoft Word Document provided by Alistair Hinton.
Authorship:
- by Charles Hopkins (1952 - 2007), "La dernière fête galante", written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "La dernière fête galante", appears in Parallèlement
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Another version of this text exists in the database.
Researcher for this page: Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-08-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 121