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PARIS SOUS LA PLUIE (AN EARLY BONNARD), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each has his france; and mine's three feet by two
Last Line: From their talk, in that café, in its smoke-loud air.
Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Cities; Paris, France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


EACH has his France; and mine's three feet by two
and Bonnard signed it ... who from his attic saw
the Gallic anger of that rain that grew
to a passionate moment, dwindled, became no more
than the washed Paris smell, with a trickle from slate and drain.
Wet roofs he saw turn vague with approaching night,
and night was a malefactor masked in the rain,
footpadding down dark passages. No light
had challenged it — till the café lamps in his street
rose like a small, companionable sun
over motionless cobble-pools. ... And there, down there
my painter too would go to-night, would meet
Lautrec, Latour. And gold of France would be spun
from their talk, in that café, in its smoke-loud air.





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