Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Marseilles | | Marseilles | | Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) |
| | (From Mirèio)
Translated by Harriet W. Preston
THOU fair Marseilles, who openest on the sea | |
| Thy haughty eyes and gazest languidly, | |
| As though naught else were worthy to behold, | |
| And, though the winds rage, dreamest but of gold, | |
| When Lazarus preached to thee, thou didst begin | 5 |
| Those eyes to close, and see the night within, | |
| And to the fountain of l’Huveaune speeding, | |
| The source whereof Magdalene’s tears were feeding, | |
| Didst wash thy sins away; and in this hour | |
| Art proud once more; but other storms may lower. | 10 |
| Forget not, then, amid thy revelries, | |
| Whose tears they are that bathe thine olive-trees! | | | | |
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