The Trees' Reflection In The Misty Stream

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Title:     The Trees' Reflection In The Misty Stream
Author: Paul Verlaine [More Titles by Verlaine]

Le rossignol qui du haut d'une branche se regarde
dedans, croit etre tombe dans la riviere. Il est au sommet
d'un chene, et toutefois il a peur de se noyer.
---CYRANO DE BERGERAC.

The trees' reflection in the misty stream
Dies off in livid steam;
Whilst up among the actual boughs, forlorn,
The tender wood-doves mourn.

How wan the face, O traveller, this wan
Gray landscape looked upon;
And how forlornly in the high tree-tops
Lamented thy drowned hopes!

[The end]
Paul Verlaine's poem: Trees' Reflection In The Misty Stream

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