L'automne
Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme 1839 (Paris) – 1907 (Châtenay-Malabry)
L'azur n'est plus égal comme un rideau sans pli.
La feuille, à tout moment, tressaille, vole et tombe ;
Au bois, dans les sentiers où le taillis surplombe,
Les taches de soleil, plus larges, ont pâli.
Mais l'oeuvre de la sève est partout accompli :
La grappe autour du cep se colore et se bombe,
Dans le verger la branche au poids des fruits succombe,
Et l'été meurt, content de son devoir rempli.
Dans l'été de ta vie enrichis-en l'automne ;
Ô mortel, sois docile à l'exemple que donne,
Depuis des milliers d'ans, la terre au genre humain ;
Vois : le front, lisse hier, n'est déjà plus sans rides,
Et les cheveux épais seront rares demain :
Fuis la honte et l'horreur de vieillir les mains vides.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 706 |
Words | 124 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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