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An orange on the table
Your dress on the rug
And you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
Cool of the night
Warmth of my life
Your dress on the rug
And you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
Cool of the night
Warmth of my life
Monday, 9 February 2009
Bit of culture, innit
As I said once before, I really love the Poems on the Underground scheme. Tonight on my way home I saw this one, and liked it a lot. It's by Jacques Prévert, and you can read the original French version here (Daisy, I expect you to tell me if it's a bad translation).
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5 readers just couldn't let me have the last word:
Good translation or not, it's beautiful.
(He is a great man; if my name was Prévert I'd be too afraid of mispellings ever to publish anything.)
That's funny, because I studied him in A Level French, and we did call him Jack Pervert.
Totally beautiful. Love it.
Really great poem- I wish they had poems on the Metro here. And perfect translation!
Oh, that's beautiful.
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