Vous ne reviendrez jamais!

Jamais! Jamais!

Then the first stanza is repeated. The choral possibilities of this cry are clear enough, and sung to the dance about a corpse, as was undoubtedly the primitive case, its rhythm would have been exact and no “recitative.” A further step is taken when individual and artistic touches make themselves felt in a pretty little cri which is sung by a mother[[549]] over her child:—

Pauvret!

Ah!

Tu seras bien seulet

Au cimitière

Cette nuit,

Et moi

Je te pleurerai