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| Prieuré San-Cosme |
POUR SON TOMBEAU
Ronsard repose icy, qui hardy dés enfance
Détourna d’Helicon les Muses en la France,
Suivant le son du luth et les traits d’Apollon:
Mais peu valut sa Muse encontre l’eguillon
De la mort, qui cruelle en ce tombeau l’enserre.
Son ame soit à Dieu, son corps soit à la terre.
FOR HIS TOMB
Ronsard is lying here, whose early daring stance
The Muses did divert from Helicon to France,
The lute’s sound and Apollo’s traits his chosen road:
But little could his Muse when pit against the goad
Of death, who him did seal most cruelly in this tomb.
May his soul be with God, may earth his corpse consume.
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