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L'Ile et le voyage: petite odyssée d'un poète lointain

Chapter 55: CINQUIÈME CHANT CHANSONS LOINTAINES
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Lyrical poems depict tropical islands and seafaring voyages through vivid sensory detail, celebrating palms, reefs, dawns and moonlit nights. The speaker moves between nostalgia for a distant shore and the exhilaration of travel, attentive to winds, birds, waves, and human intimacies conveyed by letters and memory. Recurring themes include solitude, longing, and the interplay of exotic landscape and inner reverie, with short lyric scenes—incantations, invitations, and elegiac observations—united by a tone alternating between tenderness and contemplative yearning.

CINQUIÈME CHANT
CHANSONS LOINTAINES

C’est à quoi je fus destiné
Dès le premier jour de ma vie,
Et la Muse m’auroit traisné,
Si je ne l’eusse pas suivie.

François Maynard.

Shall I reject the green and rose
Of opals with their shifting flame,
Because the classic diamond glows
With lustre that is still the same.

Edmund Gosse.