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As these philosophers are not of our opinion about shells, they will permit us not to be of theirs about corn. We do not believe that one has ever made tulips grow from jasmin. We find that the germ of corn is quite different from that of lolium, and we do not believe in any transmutation. When somebody shows it to us we will retract.
On the day following the entertainment, Jasmin was invited to a "grand banquet" given by the coiffeurs of Toulouse, where they presented him with "a crown of immortelles and jasmines," and to them also he recited another of his impromptus. Franconnette was shortly after published, and the poem was received with almost as much applause by the public as it had been by the citizens of Toulouse.
The more exquisite the mastery of a writer over his own language, the more difficult it is to reproduce it in another. But the spirit of the song is in Miss Costello's translation, as given in Franconnette at the close of this volume. When reciting Franconnette, Jasmin usually sang The Syren to music of his own composition. We accordingly annex his music.
Eyes with long lashes, rather narrow, but which would have been called good in any country in the world; with almost an expression, almost a thought. A coppery tint on her rounded cheeks; a straight nose; slightly thick lips, but well modelled and with pretty corners. A little older than Mademoiselle Jasmin, about eighteen years of age perhaps, already more of a woman.
We might fill this little story with a detailed account of his journeyings; but a summary account is all that is at present necessary. We shall afterwards return to the subject. Jasmin published no further poems for three or four years. His time was taken up with his trade and his philanthropic missions.
The Archbishop a man of intelligence who understood the feelings of poets promised, at the collation which followed the consecration, to give Jasmin the opportunity of reciting the verses which he had composed for the occasion. In his verses the poet described the influence of a noble church upon the imagination as well as the religion of the people.
"Monsieur Jasmin, your powers of invention are wonderful indeed, but I am not such a fool as to believe all this. How could you know it even if it were all true? Answer me that, my friend answer me that!" "But I am fool enough to believe what I know to be true," retorted the valet, forgetting his habitual caution in his irritation at M. Perigord's incredulity.
Ah, monsieur," he added, "I can only be too glad to " "Hush!" cried Jasmin, interrupting him. "We are watched. Do you not see?" And, sure enough, following the direction of Jasmin's eyes, Jean did see the man who had brought his visitor there emerge noiselessly from a dark corner near the open door and steal away into the street. "Quick," said Jasmin, "go to her at once.
M. Charles Nodier, member of the French Academy, paid a visit to Agen in 1832. Jasmin was then thirty-four years old. He had been married fourteen years, but his name was quite unknown, save to the people of Agen. It was well known in the town that he had a talent for versification, for he was accustomed to recite and chaunt his verses to his customers.
Jasmin added several other poems to his collection before his second volume appeared in 1835. Amongst these were his lines on the Polish nation Aux debris de la Nation Polonaise, and Les Oiseaux Voyageurs, ou Les Polonais en France both written in Gascon. Saint-beuve thinks the latter one of Jasmin's best works.
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