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n'ont que filles à leur arc.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>S'assembleront les gens de guerre,</b></div> <div> <B>Et tant de sciences aux terrasses...</b></div> <div> <B>Première-Née, chagrin du peuple,</b></div> <div> <B>Les dieux murmurent aux citernes,</b></div> <div> <B>Se taisent les femmes aux cuisines.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Gênait les prêtres et leurs filles,</b></div> <div> <B>Gênait les gens de chancellerie</b></div> <div> <B>Et les calculs de l'astronome:</b></div> <div> <B>"Dérangerez-vous l'ordre et le rang?"</b></div> <div> <B>Telle est l'erreur à corriger.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Du lait de Reine tôt sevrée,</b></div> <div> <B>Au lait d'euphorbe tot vouée,</b></div> <div> <B>Ne ferez plus la moue des Grands</b></div> <div> <B>Sur le miel et sur le mil,</b></div> <div> <B>Sur la sébile des vivants...</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>L'ânier pleurait sous les lambris,</b></div> <div> <B>Oriole en main, cigale en l'autre:</b></div> <div> <B>"Mes jolies cages, mes jolies cages,</b></div> <div> <B>Et l'eau de neige de mes outres,</b></div> <div> <B>Ah! pour qui donc, fille des Grands?"</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Fut embaumée, fut lavée d'or,</b></div> <div> <B>Mise au tombeau dans les pierres noires:</b></div> <div> <B>En lieu d'agaves, de beau temps,</b></div> <div> <B>Avec ses cages à grillons</b></div> <div> <B>Et le soleil d'ennui des Rois.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>S'en fut l'ânier, s'en vint le Roi!</b></div> <div> <B>"Qu'on peigne la chambre d'un ton vif</b></div> <div> <B>Et la fleur mâle au front des Reines..."</b></div> <div> <B>J'ai fait ce rêve, dit l'oriole,</b></div> <div> <B>D'un cent de reines en bas âge.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Pleurez, l'ânier, chantez l'oriole,</b></div> <div> <B>Les filles closes dans les jarres</b></div> <div> <B>Comme cigales dans le miel,</b></div> <div> <B>Les flûtes mortes aux cuisines</b></div> <div> <B>Et tant de sciences aux terrasses.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>N'avait qu'un songe et qu'un chevreau</b></div> <div> <B>- Fille et chevreau de même lait - </b></div> <div> <B>N'avait l'amour que d'une Vieille.</b></div> <div> <B>Ses caleçons d'or furent au Clergé,</b></div> <div> <B>Ses guimpes blanches à la Vieille...</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Très vieille femme de balcon</b></div> <div> <B>Sur sa berceuse de rotin,</b></div> <div> <B>Et qui mourra de grand beau temps</b></div> <div> <B>Dans le faubourg d'argile verte...</b></div> <div> <B>"Chantez, ô Rois, les fils à naître!"</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Aux salles blanches comme semoule</b></div> <div> <B>Le Scribe range ses pains de terre.</b></div> <div> <B>L'ordre reprend dans les grands Livres.</b></div> <div> <B>Pour l'oriole et le chevreau,</b></div> <div> <B>Voyez le Maître des cuisines.</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1f66d040.gif" border=0 width="365" height="260" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> </td> </tr></table></body>