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Je crois que c’est Jeanne qui l’a.
Ou vont les belles filles,
Lon la.

‘Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles,
Je montre aux etoiles Stella,
Et je leur dis: ‘Regardez-la.’
Ou vont les belles filles,
Lon la.’[56]

[56]”The bird slanders in the elms,
And pretends that yesterday, Atala
Went off with a Russian,
Where fair maids go.
Lon la.

My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked
at her pane the other day and called me. The jades are very
charming, their poison which bewitched me would intoxi-
cate Monsieur Orfila. I’m fond of love and its bickerings, I
love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting me
aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette
and of Zeila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when
thou gleamest in the dark thou crownest Lola with roses,
I would lose my soul for that. Jeanne, at thy mirror thou
deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew forth. I think
that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from the
quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: ‘Be-
hold her.’ Where fair maids go, lon la.

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