“My end is my beginning, and my beginning my end.”
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin.
"Ma fin est mon commencement", line 1; translation from Donald N. Ferguson A History of Musical Thought (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1935] 1948) p. 94.
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Ma fin est mon commencement Et mon commencement ma fin.
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Guillaume de Machaut 4
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