RIOUPÉROUX
by: James Elroy Flecker
(1884-1919)
- IGH and
solemn mountains guard Rioupéroux
- --Small untidy village where the river drives a mill--
- Frail as wood anemones, white and frail were you,
- And drooping a little, like the slender daffodil.
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- O I will go to France again, and tramp the valley through,
- And I will change these gentle clothes for clog and corduroy,
- And work with the mill-hands of black Rioupéroux,
- And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy.
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