Le Manteau Impérial (the Imperial Mantle) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCD EEFGGF GGFHHF GGIGGI CCIFF DDCGGC D JCGHHG FFCFFC IIGHH GGGGGG FFIGG CCGCCG| Le manteau imp rial | A |
| O vous dont le travail est joie | B |
| Vous qui n'avez pas d'autre proie | C |
| Que les parfums souffles du ciel | D |
| Vous qui fuyez quand vient d cembre | C |
| Vous qui d robez aux fleurs l'ambre | C |
| Pour donner aux hommes le miel | D |
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| Chastes buveuses de ros e | E |
| Qui pareilles l' pous e | E |
| Visitez le lys du coteau | F |
| soeurs des corolles vermeilles | G |
| Filles de la lumi re abeilles | G |
| Envolez vous de ce manteau | F |
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| Ruez vous sur l'homme guerri res | G |
| g n reuses ouvri res | G |
| Vous le devoir vous la vertu | F |
| Ailes d'or et fl ches de flamme | H |
| Tourbillonnez sur cet inf me | H |
| Dites lui ' Pour qui nous prends tu | F |
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| Maudit nous sommes les abeilles | G |
| Des chalets ombrag s de treilles | G |
| Notre ruche orne le fronton | I |
| Nous volons dans l'azur closes | G |
| Sur la bouche ouverte des roses | G |
| Et sur les l vres de Platon | I |
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| Ce qui sort de la fange y rentre | C |
| Va trouver Tib re en son antre | C |
| Et Charles neuf sur son balcon | I |
| Va sur ta pourpre il faut qu'on mette | F |
| Non les abeilles de l'Hymette | F |
| Mais l'essaim noir de Montfaucon ' | - |
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| Et percez le toutes ensemble | D |
| Faites honte au peuple qui tremble | D |
| Aveuglez l'immonde trompeur | C |
| Acharnez vous sur lui farouches | G |
| Et qu'il soit chass par les mouches | G |
| Puisque les hommes en ont peur | C |
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| The Imperial Mantle | D |
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| O ye whose labour is bliss alway | J |
| Blithe winged ones who have for prey | C |
| But odorous breaths of azure skies | G |
| Who ere December come far flee | H |
| Sweet thieves of sweetest blooms O ye | H |
| Who bear to men the honey prize | G |
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| Chaste sippers of the morning dew | F |
| Who visit 'neath noon's amorous blue | F |
| The lily glowing like a star | C |
| Fond sisters of May's flowrest bright | F |
| Bees blithesome daughters of the light | F |
| From that foul mantle flit afar | C |
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| Winged warriors rush upon that man | I |
| O busy toilers noble clan | I |
| For duty and virtue arduous | G |
| With golden wings keen darts of flame | H |
| Swarm round that dull foul thing of shame | H |
| And hiss 'For what has taken us ' | - |
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| 'Accurst We are the honey bees | G |
| Our hives the pride of cottages | G |
| From homeliest flowers our sweetest sips | G |
| Though oft what time warm June discloses | G |
| For love of us his loveliest roses | G |
| We're fain to alight on Plato's lips | G |
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| 'What's born of mire to mire's inclined | F |
| Go in his lair Tiberius find | F |
| Charles Nine his balcony upon | I |
| Go go Hymettus' bees scarce grace | G |
| Your purple there behooves you place | G |
| The black foul swarm of Montfaucon ' | - |
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| And all together sting him there | C |
| O tiny warriors of the air | C |
| Sting blind this traitor soulless base | G |
| Upon him swarm from far and near | C |
| And since the men of France have fear | C |
| Let bees of France the monster chase | G |
Victor Marie Hugo
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