Roger de Beauvoir – Autographed poem signed.

Roger de Beauvoir (1807.1866)

Signed autograph poem.

One oblong quarto page. Pyrenees. 1841.

Eighteen lines, in alexandrines, taken from his poem entitled The Rainbow .

In this water that falls back down and resembles lava

It bubbles incessantly in the depths of the river

…..

Then on the plateau strewn with jewels

I saw the gentian and the rose in bloom

A thousand mountain plants that, towards this pure ray,

They turned around, shaking their azure bells!

And I thought of you for a long time on that summit

You were the rainbow, and I was the abyss!