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SYLVIE:

SOUVENIRS DU VALOIS

TRANSLATED FROM

GERARD DE NERVAL

BY

LUCIE PAGE

Portland, Maine

THOMAS B. MOSHER

1896

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GERARD DE NERVAL.


   Of all that were thy prisons--ah, untamed,
     Ah, light and sacred soul!--none holds thee now;
   No wall, no bar, no body of flesh, but thou
   Art free and happy in the lands unnamed,
   Within whose gates, on weary wings and maimed,
     Thou still would'st bear that mystic golden bough
     The Sybil doth to singing men allow,
   Yet thy report folk heeded not, but blamed.

   And they would smile and wonder, seeing where
     Thou stood'st, to watch light leaves, or clouds, or wind,
   Dreamily murmuring a ballad air,
     Caught from the Valois peasants, dost thou find
   A new life gladder than the old times were,
     A love more fair than Sylvie, and as kind?

                                             ANDREW LANG.


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CONTENTS

     SYLVIE ET AURELIE.--ANDREW LANG
     GERARD DE NERVAL

     SYLVIE:

     I    A WASTED NIGHT
     II   ADRIENNE
     III  RESOLVE
     IV   A VOYAGE TO CYTHERA
     V    THE VILLAGE
     VI   OTHYS
     VII  CHAALIS
     VIII THE BALL AT LOISY
     IX   HERMENONVILLE
     X    BIG CURLY-