La devisa republicana
Du Bartàs
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| Traduzione inglese / English Translation: Duncan Riley |
| LA DEVISE RÉPUBLICAINE | THE REPUBLICAN MOTTO |
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| Au temps du début quand la bête fauve | In the beginning, when the wild beast |
| Régnait sur tout par la férocité | Ruled over all with ferocity |
| S'envola en vitesse une gaie alouette | A happy lark took wing |
| Et de ce vol hardi naquit la liberté. | And that daring flight gave birth to liberty. |
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| Un jour deux petits enfants, dans leur berceau douillet | One day two children, safe in the cradle, |
| Deux fruits de l'honneur de la maternité | Two fruits of maternal honor |
| Firent en riant se frotter leurs petites bouches | Laughed as their lips came together |
| Et leur chant de baiser fit fraternité. | And from the song of their embraces came fraternity. |
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| Quand l'homme aura vaincu toutes les tyrannies | When man has triumphed over every tyranny |
| Le droit ferme à son poing, gardant la vérité | The right clenched within his fist, holding on to truth |
| Et pour toujours bien loin de l'ambition cupide | Forever removed from greedy ambition |
| Nous verrons comme un soleil luire l'égalité. | We will see rise, gleaming like the sun, equality. |
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