Edmond Rostand. Autograph poem signed. Chantecler.
I think of light, not glory. Singing is my way of fighting and believing; and if of all songs my song is the proudest, it is because I sing clearly so that it may be clear!
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I think of light, not glory. Singing is my way of fighting and believing; and if of all songs my song is the proudest, it is because I sing clearly so that it may be clear!
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Edmond Rostand (1868.1918)
Signed autograph poem.
An oblong octavo page mounted on heavy brown cardboard.
Silence. Ink slightly faded.
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Cyrano's father copies a quatrain in alexandrine verse from Act II of Chantecler.
I am thinking of light, not glory.
Singing is my way of fighting and believing;
And if of all songs my song is the proudest,
It's because I sing clearly so that it will be clear!
Chantecler (Act II)
Edmond Rostand.
Chantecler, the four-act play written by Rostand, was created at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin on February 7, 1910.