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Where the one is hampered for fear of sinning, the other, buoyant and elastic, treads freely and fears not to be too ingenuous. Roumanille's poems have not been translated; it is hardly likely they ever will be, at least, the greater number. They were not made for Paris.
I think, but I am not sure, that it was Roumanille's noël telling of the widowed mother who carried the cradle of her own baby to the Virgin, that the Christ-Child might not lie on straw. One by one the other voices took up the strain, until in a full chorus the sorrowingly compassionate melody went thrilling through the moonlit silence of the night.
Roumanille," said he, "when you go to Avignon, and say that I sent you" for Roumanille's widow still lives, one of the most honoured muses of the "félibrige." When it was time for us to go on our way, nothing would satisfy M. and Mme.
From that moment, though there was a dozen years' difference between their ages, Mistral and Roumanille began a friendship which was to last till Roumanille's death, a friendship of half a century.
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