• 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...

  • 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 —

    ...

  • 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 —


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