The Beginnings of Poetry

by Francis Barton Gummere

Hiwer, hawer, hawerhaggl,

Hiwer, hawer, hawerhaggl,

while Silesians, with two, three, four, five, six, hear as many different refrains made by the strokes of the flail;[^[684]] and Bladé[^[685]] prints a song of Gascon peasants which seems to give again all the stages in the culture of the vine,—a stanza or two may follow for example of the repetition and the refrain:—

Plante qui plante,

Voici la belle plante;

Plante qui plante,

Voici la belle plante

Plantons, plantin,

Plantons le bon vin.

Voici la belle plante en vin,