<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344215" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade Of Aucassin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where smooth the southern waters run<br>By rustling leagues of poplars grey,<br>Beneath a veiled soft southern sun,<br>We wandered out of yesterday,<br>Went maying through that ancient May<br>Whose fallen flowers are fragrant yet,<br>And loitered by the fountain spray<br>With Aucassin and Nicolette.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The grass-grown paths are trod of none<br>Where through the woods they went astray.<br>The spider's traceries are spun<br>Across the darkling forest way.<br>There come no knights that ride to slay,<br>No pilgrims through the grasses wet,<br>No shepherd lads that sang their say<br>With Aucassin and Nicolette!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas here by Nicolette begun<br>Her bower of boughs and grasses gay;<br>'Scaped from the cell of marble dun<br>'Twas here the lover found the fay,<br>Ah, lovers fond! ah, foolish play!<br>How hard we find it to forget<br>Who fain would dwell with them as they,<br>With Aucassin and Nicolette.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ENVOY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prince, 'tis a melancholy lay!<br>For youth, for love we both regret.<br>How fair they seem, how far away,<br>With Aucassin and Nicolette!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Lang">Andrew Lang</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344215" data-title="Ballade Of Aucassin de Andrew Lang" data-description="Where smooth the southern waters run By rustling leagues of poplars grey, Beneath a veiled soft southern sun, We wandered out of yesterday, Went maying through that ancient May Whose fallen flowers are fragrant yet, And loitered by the fountain sp..."></div> </div> </div>

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