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THE JOURNEY, by                    
First Line: The train puffs off, and we depart, - fay of my heart, enchanted muse
Last Line: I present him, lovely muse, to thee.
Subject(s): Muses; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


The train puffs off, and we depart, -- fay of my heart, enchanted Muse, --
speeding to summer's azure heart, to that vaunted ground where trees are found
as thick as rushes in the ooze.

'Tis in the land of the Yveline, Muse, a cottage waits for you and me, there it
awaits us, small and fine, a rustic cot, yet half-divine, so clean, so white,
such harmony!

This much alone I know, my love, that it waits 'neath many a heaven blue, and
was chosen for us by Vibert that we might spoil with verses there his wood-cuts,
prefaced by Helleu.

On we speed: Saint Cyr, farewell to thee, Grignan, Plaisir, Neauphlele-Vieux,
Montfort, Galluis; and soon La Queue. In a hamlet -- sweet futurity! -- tonight
how happy we shall be!

This hamlet christened Les Haizettes, beneath Gros Rouvre, hard by Baisson, from
tonight we there . . . but hurry on, our spirits much rejoiced, Musette, that
with Haizettes doth rhyme "noisettes."

Let us love already Yveline, the land where mused the young Racine when all day
he stayed away from school to the horror of Monsieur Nicole. Shall we be less
frivolous, Muse of mine?

This train goes well. The Yvette I've seen cut, with the blade of its pruning-
hook, fields gold in the sunset's ardent sheen, and this one-journey's end I
ween -- quenches the gleam that lights my book.

Here is La Queue, where we descend. Like an altar doth Vibert extend his arms,
his beard, his progeny, then the Lieutel he indicates whose stream I thought was
the Yvette's.

I present him, lovely Muse, to thee.





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