Share this page: Human brothers who live after us, Do not have (your) hearts hardened against us, For, if you take pity on us poor (fellows), God will sooner have mercy on you. -- Opening lines of the "Ballade des pendus" (Ballad of the Hanged) Tell me where, in which country Is Flora, the beautiful Roman; Archipiada, and Thaïs Who was her cousin; Echo, speaking when one makes noise Over river or on pond, Who had a beauty too much more than human? Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear? -- "Ballade des dames du temps jadis " (Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past) Share this page:

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