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"'What a vilain night! says he, looking out. In fact there was a tempest abroad, and a great roaring, and wind. 'Bring a lanthorn, La Tulipe, and lock my lord comfortably into his quarters! He stood a moment looking at me from his own door, and I saw a glimpse of the poor Biche behind him. "The night was so rainy that the sentries preferred their boxes, and did not disturb me in my work.
Straightway they forget everything else." And Dumas "the great, the humane," as a charming poet has called him died happy. As well he might, in so far as his fame was concerned. La Tulipe Noire would alone have assured his future. One should always go round the sun to meet the moon in France, that is to say, one should ever circumambulate, never make straight for the lodestar ahead.
Coppée, as may be imagined, I only was capable of appreciating in his first manner, when he wrote those exquisite but purely artistic sonnets "La Tulipe," and "Le Lys." In the latter a room decorated with daggers, armour, jewellery and china is beautifully described, and it is only in the last line that the lily, which animates and gives life to the whole, is introduced.
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