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RIOUPEROUX by JAMES ELROY FLECKER

Poem Explanation

First Line: HIGH AND SOLEMN MOUNTAINS GUARD RIOUPEROUX
Last Line: AND WALK WITH YOU, AND TALK WITH YOU, LIKE ANY OTHER BOY.
Subject(s): FRANCE; TRAVEL; JOURNEYS; TRIPS;
High and solemn mountains guard Riouperoux,
-- Small untidy village where the river drives a mill:
Frail as wood anemones, white and frail were you,
And drooping a little, like the slender daffodil.

Oh I will go to France again, and tramp the vailey through,
And I will change these gentle clothes for clog and corduroy,
And work with the mill-hands of black Riouperoux,
And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy.



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