Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Martigue | | The Suitors | | Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) |
| | (From Mirèio)
Translated by Harriet W. Preston
WHEN violets are blue in the blue shadows | |
| Of the o’erhanging trees, | |
| The youth who stray in pairs about the meadows | |
| Are glad to gather these. | |
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| When peace descends upon the troubled Ocean, | 5 |
| And he his wrath forgets, | |
| Flock from Martigue the boats with wing-like motion, | |
| The fishes fill the nets. | |
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| And when the girls of Crau bloom into beauty | |
| (And fairer earth knows not), | 10 |
| Aye are there suitors ready for their duty | |
| In castle and in cot. | | | | |
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