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596 Non-English Writings I A travers les grands pins se fait entendre au loin; Aux boeufs libres du joug ayant donn6 le foin, Sifflant une chanson, le charretier regagne Sa cabane o^ I'attend une noire compagne, Et fume tacitume, accroupi sur un banc, Sa pipe, au longs reflets du m^l^ze fiambant. Adrian Rouquette wrote in a similar strain. His Antoniade ou la Solitude avec Dieu (i860) is a long eremitic poem on what had been one of the most popular subjects in Europe or Amer- ica, solitude. Les Savanes (1841) is a collection of his shorter pieces. TuUius Saint-Ceran wrote Rien ou Moi in 1837, and Mil huit cent quatorze et Mil huit cent guinze in 1838. The latter celebrates the battle of New Orleans, as does an epic in ten cantos by Urbain David, of Cette, entitled Les Anglais d, la Louisiane en 1814 et 1815 (1845). Lussan, the author of Les Martyrs de la Louisiane, produced in 1841 Les ImpSriales, a volume of homage to Napoleon in the style of Hugo. Felix de Courmont began in 1866 a poetical daily, in which he printed his own mediocre verse, chiefly satirical. Constant Lepouze, the best Latin scholar of Louisiana, gracefully translated the odes of Horace in PoSsies Diver ses (1838). In 1845 Armand Lanusse published Les Cenelles, a very interesting volume of poems by Boise, Dalcour, Liotau, Valcour, Thierry, and others, inspired evidently by Hugo and Beranger, but striking at times a note of independence and jocularity. The following, from Thierry, was first printed in Paris: Parle toujours, j'aime k t'entendre, Ta douce voix me fait comprendre Que je dois encore au bonheur Pr6tendre Car j'ai pour chasser le malheur Ton coeur. Oscar Dugue, the dramatist, published Essais Poetiques in 1847. The poems are formal and without variety, and culti- vate melancholy. His Homo, a didactic poem, is not very interesting. Alexandre Latil, in his EpMmlres (1841), a protest against the modern school, produced verses of delicacy and felicity which make him seem, on the whole, one of the most memorable