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<\/a><\/p>\nAmi, tu l\u2019as bien dit: en nous, tant que nous sommes, <\/em><\/p>\n Tu ne prenais pas garde, en tra\u00e7ant ta pens\u00e9e, Friend, you have spoken well: in us, such as we are, You didn\u2019t pay attention, laying out your thought, \u2014Alfred de Musset<\/em><\/p>\n In honor of my husband\u2019s birthday, I post a sketch of him on holiday, painting, which is something I hope he will find more time to do as he fulfills his ongoing quest for retirement. He shares this birthday with writer Alfred de Musset (1810-1857), and so I post a poem that speaks eloquently, andRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,16,17,19,3],"class_list":["post-5124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-birthday","tag-jhs","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5130,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions\/5130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIl existe souvent une certaine fleur
\nQui s\u2019en va dans la vie et s\u2019effeuille du coeur.
\n\u201cIl existe, en un mot, chez les trois quarts des hommes,
\nUn po\u00e8te mort jeune \u00e0 qui l\u2019homme survit.\u201d
\nTu l\u2019as bien dit, ami, mais tu l\u2019as trop bien dit.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nQue ta plume en faisait un vers harmonieux,
\nEt que tu blasph\u00e9mais dans la langue des dieux.
\nRelis-toi, je te rends \u00e0 ta Muse offens\u00e9e ;
\nEt souviens-toi qu\u2019en nous il existe souvent
\nUn po\u00e8te endormi toujours jeune et vivant.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThere frequently exists a certain flower
\nThat blossoms, fades and from the heart its leaves are shed.
\n\u201cIn three quarters of mankind, you understand,
\nA poet has died young yet outlived by the man.\u201d
\nWell said, my friend\u2014but a little too well said.<\/p>\n
\nThat your pen made poetry then and there, unsought.
\nIn his own tongue you took Apollo\u2019s name in vain.
\nI betray you to your injured Muse: Read again,
\nAnd remember that in all of us there often keeps
\nA poet young and vibrant, who is not dead, but sleeps.<\/p>\n<\/a>Jimmy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"