Rene Char


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The population of the meadows enchants me. Its frail beauty, bereft of venom. I never tire of reciting it to myself. The field-vole, the mole, somber children lost in the chimera of the grass, the blind-worm, son of glass, the cricket, conformist as they come, the grasshopper who flaps and counts its linen, the butterfly who play-acts drunkenness and irritates the flowers with its silent hiccups, the ants made wiser by the vast verdant expanse, and just above it, the meteoric swallows . . . 
Meadow, you are the day’s container.

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