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Faure het die volgende oor sy Requiem gesê: "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest." Fauré saw death as a "happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience."

"Word, equal to the Almighty, our only hope, Eternal light of the earth and the Heavens; We break the peaceful night's silence, Divine Saviour, cast thine eyes upon us! Spread the fire of thy mighty grace upon us. May the entire hell flee at the sound of your voice; Disperse from any slothful soul the drowsiness Inducing it to forget your laws! O Christ, look with favour upon this faithful people Which has now gathered to bless you. Receive its singing, offered to your immortal glory, And may it leave with the gifts you have bestowed upon it."

Jacques Brel se vertaling van die lied: "My Feet in the Stream My feet in the stream, I watch life flow by. My feet in the stream, I watch without saying a word. Kind fishes tell me about their lives By making circles on a pretty wave, And I respond by carving in the water Some pretty words of my own making. My feet in the stream, I watch life flow by. My feet in the stream, I watch without saying a word. With the current, a letter fades, A lost lover's letter, perhaps. Ah, how I'd like to find next to me A girl whose fingers I might caress. My feet in the stream, I watch life flow by. My feet in the stream, I watch without saying a word. And when the toad sings his lullaby at dusk Among the reeds, lady dragonfly, Tilting my face to the water's surface, I see my reflection; I see an idiot."