What is this? SPOILER

[xraven7]

id like to start by saying hi im somewhat new to the fourms whihc explains my lack of posts....

well i just finished THE END and notice something on the copyright page of Chapter 14.... if you look under the"Illustrations copyright 2006 by brett helquist" it says something in what looks like french.....

o mort, vieux capitamente, il est temps! levons l'ancre
Ce pays nous ennuie, o Mort! appareillons!
Si le ciel et la mer sont noirs comme de l'encre
Nos coeurs que tu connais sont remplis de rayons!

not sure what it is...

thanks for reading!

[Sixteen]

I googled it. It's by Baudelaire, part VIII, the second last stanza, of a poem called The Voyage. The proper translation reads:

O Death, old captain, it is time! let us lift anchor.
This land tires us, O Death. Let us be under way!
If the sky and the sea are black as ink,
Our hearts, those you know, have rays of light!

-PJ, Official Discussion Thread.