Pierrot pendu [English translation]

They found him hanging

from the low branches of an oak.

They found him hanging

on a night of the full moon.

Pierrot the unhappy one

left our earth.

He was there so little,

it was not a big deal.

Nonetheless, the world was moved.

Pierrot was popular

and the public wanted

to have full light shed on the matter.

Pierrot the unhappy one

left our earth.

He was so little there,

yet he was a pearl.

The police came

to question Columbine

who replied:

"I was at a neighbor's house."

Harlequin, that evening,

was dancing with Harlequin

and they did not find

him guilty of this crime.

They found him hanging

from the low branches of an oak.

They found him hanging

on a night of the full moon.

Pierrot had hanged himself

after grasping his misfortune

because Pierrot was no longer

the sole master of the moon.

• Artist:Petula Clark