There are many madrigals and songs of all sorts, all of them characteristic; most of them inexpressibly charming. Perhaps the best known is Magali, a quaint and tender expression of undying love which death itself cannot daunt. Magali persistently refuses and flees from the love of her adorer, who declares he will follow her even to the grave.
The following few quatrains taken here and there, will give the character of the poem:—
"Less than the sound of wind that murmurs
Care I for thee or heed thy lay;
I'll be an eel, and in the ocean
Through the blue waters glide away."
"O Magali, if thou dost turn
Eel in the ocean,
Then 'tis a fisher I will be
And fish for thee."