<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391742" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad Of The Ladies Of Yore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tell me where, in what country,<br>Is Flora the beautiful Roman,<br>Archipiada or Thais<br>Who was first cousin to her once,<br>Echo who speaks when there's a sound<br>On a pond or a river<br>Whose beauty was more than human? <br>But where are the snows of yesteryear? <br>Where is the leamed Heloise<br>For whom they castrated Pierre Abelard<br>And made him a monk at Saint-Denis,<br>For his love he took this pain,<br>Likewise where is the queen<br>Who commanded that Buridan<br>Be thrown in a sack into the Seine? <br>But where are the snows of yesteryear? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The queen white as a lily<br>Who sang with a siren's voice,<br>Big-footed Bertha, Beatrice, Alice,<br>Haremburgis who held Maine<br>And Jeanne the good maid of Lorraine<br>Whom the English bumt at Rouen, where,<br>Where are they, sovereign Virgin? <br>But where are the snows of yesteryear? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prince, don't ask me in a week<br>or in a year what place they are; <br>I can only give you this refrain:<br>Where are the snows of yesteryear?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Fran%C3%A7ois+Villon">François Villon</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=391742" data-title="Ballad Of The Ladies Of Yore de François Villon" data-description="Tell me where, in what country, Is Flora the beautiful Roman, Archipiada or Thais Who was first cousin to her once, Echo who speaks when there's a sound On a pond or a river Whose beauty was more than human? But where are the snows of yesteryear?..."></div> </div> </div>

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