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L'Arc-en-Ciel

Chapter 28: LE BEL EXEMPLE
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A collection of lyrical poems portraying quiet domestic and rural scenes, memory, and intimate portraits. The poems move between garden and household, evoking summer heat, slow rhythms of pastoral life, and close observations of people and ancestral likenesses. Themes include nostalgia, subdued sensuality, the passage of time, and small consolations of everyday routine; images of fountains, evening, portraits, and simple pleasures recur. Tone ranges from contemplative melancholy to restrained affection, often addressing solitude, inherited ties, and the delicate border between remembrance and forgetting.

LE BEL EXEMPLE

En ce frais paysage où chante au loin la vigne,
Parmi nos cerisiers, nos fraisiers, nos cassis,
Serait-il point charmant et d’un autre âge digne
Que nous renouvelions Philémon et Baucis ?
Plus se tassait en eux la vieillesse inféconde,
Plus le désir de vivre emplissait leurs regards,
Et près d’un siècle entier s’écoula pour le monde
Sans désunir les mains de ces heureux vieillards.