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LE PRINTEMPS VIENT TOUJOURS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one who loves may seek to find
Last Line: Le printemps vient toujours.'
Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets


AS one who loves may seek to find
Some name by all the rest unfound,
For her who dwells within his mind
To comfort and to bless,
As though the secret of the sound
No other might possess;
So we in alien words enwind,
In foreign phrase caress,
The hope wherein all joys abound.
Is it Winter? Nevertheless
'Le printemps vient toujours, toujours,
Le printemps vient toujours.'

If Fortune's wheel, in moving round,
Give us our turn to be abased,
And low we lie, are straitened, bound,
While storms our treasures rust,
Great Love, Who checks our careless haste,
May, more than Justice just,
Dull Fortune's eyes, Himself, astound,
That turn her wheel she must:
We rise above the wintry waste,
With a song that spurns the ground,
'Le printemps vient toujours, toujours,
Le printemps vient toujours.'

If some from hope to hope are chased,
Nor covet any worldly wage,
By Duty's sternest mandate placed
Where selfish hope must die,
Still smiting with a noble rage
The passions they deny,
With courage and endurance graced
Though all they longed for fly,
They triumph still from youth to age,
Till Death as Love is faced:
Then, free at last, for joy they sigh,
'Le printemps vient toujours, toujours,
Le printemps vient toujours.'





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