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“Les Cloches” by Guillaume Apollinaire 🇫🇷 (26 Aug 18809 Nov 1918)
Translated from the French by & Andrea Cohen
My handsome gypsy my love
Listen to the bells that ring
We loved each other unbridled
Thinking no one could see us
But we were poorly hidden
All the bells everywhere
Have seen us from steeples
And they’re telling everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien and Henri
Marie Ursule and Catherine
The baker’s wife and her husband
And then my cousin Gertrude
Will smile when I walk by
I won’t know where to put myself
You’ll be far away I’ll cry
I’ll die of it maybe