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Ode to Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday

Le noir serpent, sorti de sa caverne impure,

A donc vu rompre enfin sous ta main ferme et sûrele venimeux tissu de ses jours abhorrés!

Aux entrailles du tigre, à ses dents homicides,

Tu vins demander et les membres

Et le sang des humains qu'il avait dévorés!

La vertu seule est libre.

Honneur de notre histoire,

Notre immortel opprobre y vit avec ta gloire.

Seule tu fus un homme, et vengea les humains.

Et nous, eunuques vils, troupeau lâche et sans âme,

Nous savons répéter quelques plaintes de femme,

Mais le fer pèserait à nos débiles mains.. . . . .

Un scélérat de moins rampe dans cette fange.

La Vertu t'applaudit.

De sa mâle

Entends, bell héroïne, entends l'auguste voix.

O Vertu, le poignard, seul espoir de la terre,

Est ton arme sacrée, alors que le

Laisse régner le crime, et te vend à ses lois.

English(The black serpent, leaving his filthy cave,

Has finally suffered by your hand so sure and

The end of its venomous existence so despised!

From the tiger's guts, from his homicidal

You came and drew what he'd devoured from beneath:

The blood and livid members of his victims sacrificed.) (Virtue alone is free.

Honor of our history,

Our immortal shame we live beside your glory.

Only you were a man, your knife did vengeance wreak;

And we, vile eunuchs, cowardly and soul-less cattle.

We can at best complain like women prattle,

But to wield a sword our hands would be too weak. . . . .

In that mud crawls one scoundrel less.

Hear, lovely heroine, hear Virtue bless,

Hear the august voice of its virile praise.

Oh virtue, the dagger that hope will raise,

Is your sacred arm, when Heaven holds its

And lets crime rule, while laws are cut asunder.)translation source unknown but found at

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Andre Marie de Chenier

André Marie Chénier (30 October 1762 – 25 July 1794) was a French poet of Greek and Franco-Levantine origin, associated with the events of the F…

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