Original Text:
Nymphes des alentours, venez nymphes discrètes
Laboulie en ces lieux, vêtu de ses lunettes,
Se montre à vos regards dans le simple appareil
D'un jeune gazetier qui quittant l'onde pure,
Ayant à la pleine eau donné sa signature
Sèche son beau torse au soleil.
(L'auteur gardera l'anonyme, la loi ayant oublié de se prononcer sur la signature des acrostiches, quatrains, sixains, villanelles, ballades, rondeaux, virelais et autres bouts rimés.)
Translation:
Neighborhood nymphs, come discreet nymphs
Laboulie in these places arrayed with his glasses,
Shows himself to your glances in uncovered masses
A young journalist who, leaving the unsullied water
having hardly given his signature
Dries his fine torso in the sun.
(The author remains anonymous, since the law forgot to require a signature for certain ballades)
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