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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Rioupéroux

James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915)

HIGH and solemn mountains guard Rioupéroux

—Small untidy village where the river drives a mill—

Frail as wood anemones, white and frail were you,

And drooping a little, like the slender daffodil.

O I will go to France again, and tramp the valley through,

And I will change these gentle clothes for clog and corduroy,

And work with the mill-hands of black Rioupéroux,

And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy.