BEAUVOIR Roger de – Signed autograph poem.

Roger de BEAUVOIR (1807.1866)

Signed autograph poem.

An oblong octavo page. Pyrenees. 1841.

Eighteen verses, in alexandrines, taken from his poem entitled L'arc en ciel .

In this water that falls and is like lava

Bubbling incessantly in the depths of the Gave

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So on the plateau strewn with precious stones

I saw the gentian and the rose in bloom

A thousand mountain plants which towards this pure ray

They turned, shaking their azure bells!

And I thought of you for a long time on this peak

You were the rainbow, and I was the abyss!