"LE PANACHE."
Charles Renauld translation
TRIOLETS.
(After the fashion of Rostand's in ACT II: "Ce sont les Cadets de Gascogne.")
O'er truth and daring floats a plume That is no flaunting feather vain! In knightly grace and flower's bloom, O'er truth and daring floats a plume! In festive hall, by silent tomb, It waves aloft without a stain. O'er truth and daring floats a plume That is no flaunting feather vain! We'll call it, if you will, a broom; But how it sweeps with proud disdain! It sweeps the skies, and not a room! We'll call it, if you will, a broom. It is a symbol, not of gloom, But of a dash that scorns to gain. We'll call it, if you will, a broom; But how it sweeps with proud disdain! O'er truth and daring floats a plume That is no flaunting feather vain! It marks for ay the hero's doom! O'er truth and daring floats a plume. It nods o'er chisel, brush and loom, And consecrates the poet's strain. O'er truth and daring floats a plume That is no flaunting feather vain!
Charles Renauld.
New York, 12th July, 1898.