Steve, IIRC, that last verse goes:
"Mais la vie separe ceux qui s'aiment
Tous doucement, sans faire de bržit,
Et la mer efface sur le sable
Les pas des amants dŽsunis."

(But life separates those who love, very softly, without making any noise, and the sea wipes away from the sand the steps [read: footprints] of separated lovers.)

Sorry about that "who" that I studk into the French line in place of "qui." (I do that sometimes when I'm thinking sort of half in one language and half in another.)

Genie