Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Jurançon | | The Wine of Jurançon | | Charles Coran (1814–1901) |
| | Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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LITTLE sweet wine of Jurançon, | |
| You are dear to my memory still! | |
| With mine host and his merry song, | |
| Under the rose-tree I drank my fill. | |
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| Twenty years after, passing that way, | 5 |
| Under the trellis I found again | |
| Mine host, still sitting there au frais, | |
| And singing still the same refrain. | |
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| The Jurançon, so fresh and bold, | |
| Treats me as one it used to know; | 10 |
| Souvenirs of the days of old | |
| Already from the bottle flow. | |
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| With glass in hand our glances met, | |
| We pledge, we drink. How sour it is! | |
| Never Argenteuil piquette | 15 |
| Was to my palate sour as this! | |
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| And yet the vintage was good in sooth, | |
| The selfsame juice, the selfsame cask! | |
| It was you, O gayety of my youth, | |
| That failed in the autumnal flask. | 20 | | |
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