despourrins.
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"Per acère castagnere."
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beneath a chesnut shade
A shepherd, drown'd in tears,
By her he loved betray'd,
Thus sung his grief and fears:
"Why dost thou smile," he said,
"As all my woes increase?
When will my truth be paid,
And all thy coldness cease?"
The fair one listen'd not,—
And feign'd she had not seen;
But sought a distant spot,
The furze and heath between,
But, as she proudly went,
Thorns, in her path that lay,
Her little feet have rent,
And stopp'd her on her way.
She paused, in sudden pain,
Her pride aside she laid,
And, in soft tone, was fain
To ask her lover's aid;
She bade, in piteous mood,
He would the thorns remove,
And take from gratitude
The kiss denied to love.
That grateful kiss she must
Bestow—tho' she deplore it;
And he had been unjust
Not—doubly—to restore it.
despourrins.
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"Roussignoulet qui cantes."[52]
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