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Subject: [Leica] It was 29 years ago today
From: phong at doan-ltd.com (Phong)
Date: Fri Apr 30 15:39:12 2004

SonyC quoted:
> Quand c'en est fini des malheurs
> Quand un ami s?che vos  pleurs
> Qu'elle est belle la libert?
> La libert?


Ah, sweet liberty.  But Ulysses got
to return home after 20 years away,
and his home and family was still all there:

Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage,
Ou comme celui-la qui conquit la toison,
Et puis est retourne, plein d'usage et raison,
Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son age !

Quand reverrai-je, helas, de mon petit village
Fumer la cheminee, et en quelle saison
Reverrai-je le clos de ma pauvre maison,
Qui m'est une province, et beaucoup davantage ?

- Phong


[I did my BEPC in 1972, and was quizzed on
the Pleiades: Ronsard, his sidekick du Bellay,
who authored the above sonnet, etc.
I can still do Le Cid too:  Perce jusques au fond
du coeur d'une atteinte imprevue aussi bien que
mortelle, ...   :-)]








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