Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Bourg-la-Reine | | Charming Gabrielle | | Henri IV. (1553–1610) |
| | Translated by Louisa Stuart Costello
MY charming Gabrielle! | |
| My heart is pierced with woe, | |
| When glory sounds her knell, | |
| And forth to war I go. | |
| Parting, perchance our last! | 5 |
| Day, marked unblest to prove! | |
| O that my life were past, | |
| Or else my hapless love. | |
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| Bright star, whose light I lose,— | |
| O, fatal memory! | 10 |
| My grief each thought renews!— | |
| We meet again, or die! | |
| Parting, etc. | |
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| O, share and bless the crown | |
| By valor given to me! | 15 |
| War made the prize my own, | |
| My love awards it thee! | |
| Parting, etc. | |
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| Let all my trumpets swell, | |
| And every echo round | 20 |
| The words of my farewell | |
| Repeat with mournful sound! | |
| Parting, etc. | | | | |
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