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Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus
Advenio has miseras, soror,
ad inferias,
Ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
Et mutam nequiquam adloquerer cinerem,
Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum,
Heu miser indigne soror
adempte mihi.
Nunc tamen interea haec prisco quae more parentum
Tradita sunt tristes munera ad inferias,
Accipe fraterno multam manantia fletu,
Atque in perpetuum, soror, ave atque vale.
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| Borne
through many peoples and over many seas, I
come, my sister to these sad rites, to perform the last obsequies and
speak in vain to your silent ashes; for fate has snatched thee, even
thee,
away from me. Alas! my sister, so cruelly torn from me, accept at
least
these funeral gifts, much bedewed with a brother's
tears, which by ancestral custom, have been laid here as offerings to the dead; and
for ever, sister, hail and farewell.
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Jean 1936 - 1980 |