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Let us enjoy the halcyon wave;

Sometimes impending peril lowers

Beyond the seaman's skill to save;

The Wisdom; infinitely wise;

That gives to human destinies

Their foreordained necessity;

Has made no law more fixed below;

Than the alternate ebb and flow

Of Fortune and Adversity。





THE ANGEL AND THE CHILD



BY JEAN REBOUL; THE BAKER OF NISMES



An angel with a radiant face;

  Above a cradle bent to look;

Seemed his own image there to trace;

  As in the waters of a brook。



〃Dear child! who me resemblest so;〃

  It whispered; 〃come; O come with me!

Happy together let us go;

  The earth unworthy is of thee!



〃Here none to perfect bliss attain;

  The soul in pleasure suffering lies;

Joy hath an undertone of pain;

  And even the happiest hours their sighs。



〃Fear doth at every portal knock;

  Never a day serene and pure

From the o'ershadowing tempest's shock

  Hath made the morrow's dawn secure。



〃What then; shall sorrows and shall fears

  Come to disturb so pure a brow?

And with the bitterness of tears

  These eyes of azure troubled grow?



〃Ah no! into the fields of space;

  Away shalt thou escape with me;

And Providence will grant thee grace

  Of all the days that were to be。



〃Let no one in thy dwelling cower;

  In sombre vestments draped and veiled;

But let them welcome thy last hour;

  As thy first moments once they hailed。



〃Without a cloud be there each brow;

  There let the grave no shadow cast;

When one is pure as thou art now;

  The fairest day is still the last。〃



And waving wide his wings of white;

  The angel; at these words; had sped

Towards the eternal realms of light!

  Poor mother! see; thy son is dead!





ON THE TERRACE OF THE AIGALADES



BY JOSEPH MERY



From this high portal; where upsprings

The rose to touch our hands in play;

We at a glance behold three things

The Sea; the Town; and the Highway。



And the Sea says: My shipwrecks fear;

I drown my best friends in the deep;

And those who braved icy tempests; here

Among my sea…weeds lie asleep!



The Town says: I am filled and fraught

With tumult and with smoke and care;

My days with toil are overwrought;

And in my nights I gasp for air。



The Highway says: My wheel…tracks guide

To the pale climates of the North;

Where my last milestone stands abide

The people to their death gone forth。



Here; in the shade; this life of ours;

Full of delicious air; glides by

Amid a multitude of flowers

As countless as the stars on high;



These red…tiled roofs; this fruitful soil;

Bathed with an azure all divine;

Where springs the tree that gives us oil;

The grape that giveth us the wine;



Beneath these mountains stripped of trees;

Whose tops with flowers are covered o'er;

Where springtime of the Hesperides

Begins; but endeth nevermore;



Under these leafy vaults and walls;

That unto gentle sleep persuade;

This rainbow of the waterfalls;

Of mingled mist and sunshine made;



Upon these shores; where all invites;

We live our languid life apart;

This air is that of life's delights;

The festival of sense and heart;



This limpid space of time prolong;

Forget to…morrow in to…day;

And leave unto the passing throng

The Sea; the Town; and the Highway。





TO MY BROOKLET



BY JEAN FRANCOIS DUCIS



Thou brooklet; all unknown to song;

Hid in the covert of the wood!

Ah; yes; like thee I fear the throng;

Like thee I love the solitude。



O brooklet; let my sorrows past

Lie all forgotten in their graves;

Till in my thoughts remain at last

Only thy peace; thy flowers; thy waves。



The lily by thy margin waits;

The nightingale; the marguerite;

In shadow here he meditates

His nest; his love; his music sweet。



Near thee the self…collected soul

Knows naught of error or of crime;

Thy waters; murmuring as they roll;

Transform his musings into rhyme。



Ah; when; on bright autumnal eves;

Pursuing still thy course; shall I

Lisp the soft shudder of the leaves;

And hear the lapwing's plaintive cry?







BARREGES



BY LEFRANC DE POMPIGNAN



I leave you; ye cold mountain chains;

Dwelling of warriors stark and frore!

You; may these eyes behold no more;

Rave on the horizon of our plains。



Vanish; ye frightful; gloomy views!

Ye rocks that mount up to the clouds!

Of skies; enwrapped in misty shrouds;

Impracticable avenues!



Ye torrents; that with might and main

Break pathways through the rocky walls;

With your terrific waterfalls

Fatigue no more my weary brain!



Arise; ye landscapes full of charms;

Arise; ye pictures of delight!

Ye brooks; that water in your flight

The flowers and harvests of our farms!



You I perceive; ye meadows green;

Where the Garonne the lowland fills;

Not far from that long chain of hills;

With intermingled vales between。



You wreath of smoke; that mounts so high;

Methinks from my own hearth must come;

With speed; to that beloved home;

Fly; ye too lazy coursers; fly!



And bear me thither; where the soul

In quiet may itself possess;

Where all things soothe the mind's distress;

Where all things teach me and console。





WILL EVER THE DEAR DAYS COME BACK AGAIN?



Will ever the dear days come back again;

  Those days of June; when lilacs were in bloom;

  And bluebirds sang their sonnets in the gloom

  Of leaves that roofed them in from sun or rain?

I know not; but a presence will remain

  Forever and forever in this room;

  Formless; diffused in air; like a perfume;

  A phantom of the heart; and not the brain。

Delicious days! when every spoken word

  Was like a foot…fall nearer and more near;

  And a mysterious knocking at the gate

Of the heart's secret places; and we heard

  In the sweet tumult of delight and fear

  A voice that whispered; 〃Open; I cannot wait!〃





AT LA CHAUDEAU



BY XAVIER MARMIER



At La Chaudeau;'t is long since then:

I was young;my years twice ten;

All things smiled on the happy boy;

Dreams of love and songs of joy;

Azure of heaven and wave below;

     At La Chaudeau。



At La Chaudeau I come back old:

My head is gray; my blood is cold;

Seeking along the meadow ooze;

Seeking beside the river Seymouse;

The days of my spring…time of long ago

     At La Chaudeau。



At La Chaudeau nor heart nor brain

Ever grows old with grief and pain;

A sweet remembrance keeps off age;

A tender friendship doth still assuage

The burden of sorrow that one may know

     At La Chaudeau。



At La Chaudeau; had fate decreed

To limit the wandering life I lead;

Peradventure I still; forsooth;

Should have preserved my fresh green youth;

Under the shadows the hill…tops throw

     At La Chaudeau。



At La Chaudeau; live on; my friends;

Happy to be where God intends;

And sometimes; by the evening fire;

Think of him whose sole desire

Is again to sit in the old chateau

     At La Chaudeau。







A QUIET LIFE。



Let him who will; by force or fraud innate;

  Of courtly grandeurs gain the slippery height;

  I; leaving not the home of my delight;

  Far from the world and noise will meditate。

Then; without pomps or perils of the great;

  I shall behold the day succeed the night;

  Behold the alternate seasons take their flight;

  And in serene repose old age await。

And so; whenever Death shall come to close

  The happy moments that my days compose;

  I; full of years; shall die; obscure; alone!

How wretched is the man; with honors crowned;

  Who; having not the one thing needful found;

  Dies; known to all; but to himself unknown。







THE WINE OF JURANCON



BY CHARLES CORAN



Little sweet wine of Jurancon;

  You are dear to my memory still!

With mine host and his merry song;

 Under the rose…tree I drank my fill。



Twenty years after; passing that way;

  Under the trellis I found again

Mine host; still sitting there au frais;

  And singing still the same refrain。



The Jurancon; so fresh and bold;

  Treats me as one it used to know;

Souvenirs of the days of old

  Already from the bottle flow;



With glass in hand our glances met;

  We pledge; we drink。  How sour it is

Never Argenteuil piquette

  Was to my palate sour as this!



And yet the vintage was good; in sooth;

  The self…same juice; the self…same cask!

It was you; O gayety of my youth;

  That failed in the autumnal flask!







FRIAR LUBIN



BY CLEMENT MAROT



To gallop off to town post…haste;

  So oft; the times I cannot tell;

To do vile deed; nor feel disgraced;

  Friar Lubin will do it well。

But a sober life to lead;

  To honor virtue; and pursue it;

That's a pious; Christian deed;

  Friar Lubin can not do it。



To mingle; with a knowing smile;

  The goods of others with his own;

And leave you withou

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