Les belles filles sont en fuite
Et ne savent où se cacher.
Brune et blonde, grande et petite,
Elles dansaient près du clocher ;
Une chantait, pour la cadence ;
Les garçons aux fraîches couleurs
Accouraient au bruit de la danse,
Mettant à leurs chapeaux des fleurs ;
En revenant de la fontaine,
Elles dansaient près du clocher.
J'aime...
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Bound — a trouble —
And lives can bear it!
Limit — how deep a bleeding go!
So — many — drops — of vital scarlet —
Deal with the soul
As with Algebra!
Tell it the Ages — to a cypher —
And it will ache — contented — on —
Sing — at its pain — as any Workman —
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A Flower will not trouble her, it has so small a Foot,
And yet if you compare the Lasts,
Hers is the smallest Boot — -
Unto like Story — Trouble has enticed me —
How Kinsmen fell —
Brothers and Sister — who preferred the Glory —
And their young will
Bent to the Scaffold, or in Dungeons — chanted —
Till God's full time —
When they let go the ignominy — smiling —
And Shame went still —
Unto...