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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Le bestiaire: ou Corte?ge d'Orphe?e - -Author: Guillaume Apollinaire - -Illustrator: Raoul Dufy - -Release Date: August 30, 2019 [EBook #60199] - -Language: French - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LE BESTIAIRE: OU CORTE?GE *** - - - - -Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images -generously made available by Hathi Trust.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/bestiaire_cover.jpg" width="500" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<h2>GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE</h2> - -<h3>LE BESTIAIRE</h3> - -<h4>OU</h4> - -<h3>CORTÈGE D'ORPHÉE</h3> - -<h4>ILLUSTRÉ</h4> - -<h4>PAR</h4> - -<h4>RAOUL DUFY</h4> - -<h5>Éditions de LA SIRÈNE</h5> - -<h5>12, Rue La Boétie</h5> - -<h5>PARIS</h5> - -<h5>MDCCCCXIX</h5> - - - - -<hr class="chap" /> - - - - -<p>La rareté de l'édition originale du Bestiaire motive cette reproduction -réduite.</p> - -<p>La mort soudaine de Guillaume Apollinaire l'a empêché de présenter -lui-même ce nouveau livre au public. Je le fais à sa place et j'en -profite pour adresser à sa mémoire le souvenir ému de mon amitié et -de mon admiration.</p> - - -<p style="margin-left: 60%;">R. D.</p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - -<p style="margin-left: 10%; font-weight: bold;"> -<a id="TABLE_DE_MATIERES"></a>TABLE DE MATIÈRES</p> - -<p style="margin-left: 10%; font-size: 0.8em;"> -<a href="#ORPHEE_I">ORPHÉE I.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_TORTUE">LA TORTUE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_CHEVAL">LE CHEVAL.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_CHEVRE_DU_THIBET">LA CHÈVRE DU THIBET.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_CHAT">LE CHAT.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_LION">LE LION.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_LIEVRE">LE LIÈVRE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_LAPIN">LE LAPIN.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_DROMADAIRE">LE DROMADAIRE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_SOURIS">LA SOURIS.</a><br /> -<a href="#LELEPHANT">L'ÉLÉPHANT.</a><br /> -<a href="#ORPHEE_II">ORPHÉE II.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_CHENILLE">LA CHENILLE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_MOUCHE">LA MOUCHE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_PUCE">LA PUCE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_SAUTERELLE">LA SAUTERELLE.</a><br /> -<a href="#ORPHEE_III">ORPHÉE III.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_DAUPHIN">LE DAUPHIN.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_POULPE">LE POULPE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_MEDUSE">LA MÉDUSE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LECREVISSE">L'ÉCREVISSE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_CARPE">LA CARPE.</a><br /> -<a href="#ORPHEE_IV">ORPHÉE IV.</a><br /> -<a href="#LES_SIRENES">LES SIRÈNES.</a><br /> -<a href="#LA_COLOMBE">LA COLOMBE.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_PAON">LE PAON.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_HIBOU">LE HIBOU.</a><br /> -<a href="#IBIS">IBIS.</a><br /> -<a href="#LE_BOEUF">LE BOEUF.</a><br /> -<a href="#NOTES">NOTES.</a></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="ORPHEE_I"></a>ORPHÉE I.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best01.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Admirez le pouvoir insigne</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Et la noblesse de la ligne:</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Elle est la voix que la lumière fit entendre</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Et dont parle Hermès Trismégiste en son Pimandre.</span></p> - - -<p style="margin-left: 60%;">Elisabeth Barré.</p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_TORTUE"></a>LA TORTUE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best02.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Du Thrace magique, ô délire!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mes doigts sûrs font sonner la lyre.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Les animaux passent aux sons</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">De ma tortue, de mes chansons.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_CHEVAL"></a>LE CHEVAL.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best03.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mes durs rêves formels sauront te chevaucher,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mon destin au char d'or sera ton beau cocher</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Qui pour rênes tiendra tendus à frénésie,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mes vers, les parangons de toute poésie.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_CHEVRE_DU_THIBET"></a>LA CHÈVRE DU THIBET.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best04.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Les poils de cette chèvre et même</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Ceux d'or pour qui prit tant de peine</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Jason, ne valent rien au prix</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Des cheveux dont je suis épris.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_SERPENT."></a>LE SERPENT.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best05.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Tu t'acharnes sur la beauté.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Et quelles femmes ont été</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Victimes de ta cruauté!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Ève, Eurydice, Cléopâtre;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">J'en connais encor trois ou quatre.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_CHAT"></a>LE CHAT.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best06.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Je souhaite dans ma maison:</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Une femme ayant sa raison,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Un chat passant parmi les livres,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Des amis en toute saison</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Sans lesquels je ne peux pas vivre.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_LION"></a>LE LION.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best07.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Ô lion, malheureuse image</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Des rois chus lamentablement,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Tu ne nais maintenant qu'en cage</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">A Hambourg, chez les Allemands.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_LIEVRE"></a>LE LIÈVRE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best08.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Ne sois pas lascif et peureux</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Comme le lièvre et l'amoureux.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mais, que toujours ton cerveau soit</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">La hase pleine qui conçoit.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_LAPIN"></a>LE LAPIN.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best09.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Je connais un autre connin</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Que tout vivant je voudrais prendre.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Sa garenne est parmi le thym</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Des vallons du pays de Tendre.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_DROMADAIRE"></a>LE DROMADAIRE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best10.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Avec ses quatre dromadaires</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Courut le monde et l'admira.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Il fit ce que je voudrais faire</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Si j'avais quatre dromadaires.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_SOURIS"></a>LA SOURIS.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best11.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Belles journées, souris du temps.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Vous rongez peu à peu ma vie.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Dieu! je vais avoir vingt-huit ans,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Et mal vécus, à mon envie.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LELEPHANT"></a>L'ÉLÉPHANT.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best12.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Comme un éléphant son ivoire,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">J'ai en bouche un bien précieux.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Pourpre mort!... J'achète ma gloire</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Au prix des mots mélodieux.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="ORPHEE_II"></a>ORPHÉE II.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best13.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Regardez cette troupe infecte</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Aux mille pattes, aux cent yeux:</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Rotifères, cirons, insectes</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Et microbes plus merveilleux</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Que les sept merveilles du monde</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Et le palais de Rosemonde!</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_CHENILLE"></a>LA CHENILLE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best14.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Le travail mène à la richesse.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Pauvres poètes, travaillons!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">La chenille en peinant sans cesse</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Devient le riche papillon.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_MOUCHE"></a>LA MOUCHE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best15.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Nos mouches savent des chansons</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Que leur apprirent en Norvège</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Les mouches ganiques qui sont</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Les divinités de la neige.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_PUCE"></a>LA PUCE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best16.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Puces, amis, amantes même,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Qu'ils sont cruels ceux qui nous aiment!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Tout notre sang coule pour eux.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Les bien-aimés sont malheureux.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_SAUTERELLE"></a>LA SAUTERELLE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best17.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Voici la fine sauterelle,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">La nourriture de saint Jean.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Puissent mes vers être comme elle,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Le régal des meilleures gens.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="ORPHEE_III"></a>ORPHÉE III.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best18.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Que ton cœur soit l'appât et le ciel, la piscine!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Car, pécheur, quel poisson d'eau douce ou bien marine</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Égale-t-il, et par la forme et la saveur,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Ce beau poisson divin qu'est JÉSUS, Mon Sauveur?</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_DAUPHIN"></a>LE DAUPHIN.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best19.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Dauphins, vous jouez dans la mer,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mais le flot est toujours amer.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Parfois, ma joie éclate-t-elle?</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">La vie est encore cruelle.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_POULPE"></a>LE POULPE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best20.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Jetant son encre vers les cieux,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Suçant le sang de ce qu'il aime</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Et le trouvant délicieux,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Ce monstre inhumain, c'est moi-même.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_MEDUSE"></a>LA MÉDUSE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best21.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Méduses, malheureuses têtes</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Aux chevelures violettes</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Vous vous plaisez dans les tempêtes,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Et je m'y plais comme vous faites.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LECREVISSE"></a>L'ÉCREVISSE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best22.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Incertitude, ô mes délices</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Vous et moi nous nous en allons</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Comme s'en vont les écrevisses,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">À reculons, à reculons.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_CARPE"></a>LA CARPE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best23.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Dans vos viviers, dans vos étangs,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Carpes, que vous vivez longtemps!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Est-ce que la mort vous oublie,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Poissons de la mélancolie.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="ORPHEE_IV"></a>ORPHÉE IV.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best24.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">La femelle de l'alcyon,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">L'Amour, les volantes Sirènes.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Savent de mortelles chansons</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Dangereuses et inhumaines.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">N'oyez pas ces oiseaux maudits,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mais les Anges du paradis.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LES_SIRENES"></a>LES SIRÈNES.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best25.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Saché-je d'où provient, Sirènes, votre ennui</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Quand vous vous lamentez, au large, dans la nuit?</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mer, je suis, comme toi, plein de voix machinées</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Et mes vaisseaux chantants se nomment les années.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LA_COLOMBE"></a>LA COLOMBE.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best26.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Colombe, l'amour et l'esprit</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Qui engendrâtes Jésus-Christ,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Comme vous j'aime une Marie.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Qu'avec elle je me marie.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_PAON"></a>LE PAON.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best27.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">En faisant la roue, cet oiseau,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Dont le pennage traîne à terre,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Apparaît encore plus beau,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mais se découvre le derrière.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_HIBOU"></a>LE HIBOU.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best28.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Mon pauvre cœur est un hibou</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Qu'on cloue, qu'on décloue, qu'on recloue.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">De sang, d'ardeur, il est à bout.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Tous ceux qui m'aiment, je les loue.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="IBIS"></a>IBIS.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best29.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Oui, j'irai dans l'ombre terreuse</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Ô mort certaine, ainsi soit-il!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Latin mortel, parole affreuse,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Ibis, oiseau des bords du Nil.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<h4><a id="LE_BOEUF"></a>LE BOEUF.</h4> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/best30.jpg" width="450" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 30%;">Ce chérubin dit la louange</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Du paradis, où, près des anges,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Nous revivrons, mes chers amis</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 30%;">Quand le bon Dieu l'aura permis.</span></p> - - - - -<hr class="r5" /> - - - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/best31.jpg" width="300" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<h4><a id="NOTES"></a>NOTES.</h4> - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Admirez le pouvoir insigne</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Et la noblesse de la ligne.</span></b></p> - -<p><i>Il loue la ligne qui a formé les images, magnifiques ornements de -ce divertissement poétique.</i></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Elle est la voix que la lumière fit entendre</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Et dont parle Hermès Trismégiste en son Pimandre.</span></b></p> - -<p>«<i>Bientôt, lit-on dans le</i> Pimandre, <i>descendirent des ténèbres... et il -en sortit un cri inarticulé qui semblait la voix de la lumière.</i>»</p> - -<p><i>Cette voix de la lumière, n'est-ce pas le dessin» c'est-à-dire la -ligne? Et quand la lumière s'exprime pleinement tout se colore. La -peinture est proprement un langage lumineux.</i></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Du Thrace magique.</span></b></p> - - -<p><i>Orphée était datif de la Thrace. Ce sublime poète jouait d'une lyre -que Mercure lui avait donnée. Elle était composée d'une carapace de -tortue, de cuir collé à l'entour, de deux branches, d'un chevalet et -de cordes faites avec des boyaux de brebis. Mercure donna également -de ces lyres à Apollon et à Amphion. Quand Orphée jouait en chantant, -les animaux sauvages eux-mêmes venaient écouter son cantique. Orphée -inventa toutes les sciences, tous les arts. Fondé dans la magie, -il connut l'avenir et prédit chrétiennement l'avènement du SAUVEUR.</i></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Mes durs rêves formels sauront te chevaucher,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Mon destin au char d'or sera ton beau cocher.</span></b></p> - - -<p><i>Le premier qui monta Pégase fut Bellérophon quand il alla attaquer -la Chimère. Il existe aujourd'hui bien des chimères, et avant de -combattre l'une d'elles, la plus ennemie de la poésie, il convient de -brider Pégase et même de l'atteler. On sait bien ce que je veux dire.</i></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">La hase pleine qui conçoit.</span></b></p> - - -<p><i>Chez la femelle du lièvre la superfétation est possible.</i></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Avec ses quatre dromadaires,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Courut le monde et l'admira.</span></b></p> - - -<p><i>La célèbre relation de voyage intitulée</i>: Historia del Infante -D. Pedro de Portugal, en la que se refiere lo que le sucedio en le -viaje que hizo cuando anduvo las siete partes del mundo, compuesto -por Gomez de Santistevan, uno de los doce que llevo en su compania el -infante, <i>rapporte que l'Infant du Portugal, don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira, -se mit en route avec douze compagnons pour visiter les sept parties du -monde. Ces voyageurs étaient montés sur quatre dromadaires, et après -avoir passé en Espagne, ils allèrent en Norvège et, de là, à Babylone -et en Terre-Sainte. Le prince portugais visita encore les états du -prêtre Jean et revint dans son pays au bout de trois ans et quatre -mois.</i></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Et le palais de Rosemonde.</span></b></p> - - -<p><i>Voici, touchant ce palais, témoignage de l'amour que le roi -d'Angleterre éprouvait pour sa maîtresse, ce couplet d'une complainte -dont je ne connais point l'Auteur</i>:</p> - - -<p><span style="margin-left: 3em;"><i>Pour mettre Rosemonde à l'abri de la haine</i></span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><i>Que lui portait la reine,</i></span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><i>Le roi fit construire un palais</i></span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><i>Tel qu'on n'en vit jamais.</i></span></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Les mouches ganiques qui sont</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Les divinités de la neige.</span></b></p> - - -<p><i>Toutes n'apparaissent pas sous la forme de flocons, mais beaucoup -ont été apprivoisées par les sorciers finnois ou lapons et elles leur -obéissent. Les magiciens se les transmettent de père en fils et les -gardent enfermées dans une boîte où elles se tiennent invisibles, -prêtes à s'envoler en essaim pour tourmenter les voleurs, tout en -chantant les paroles magiques, ainsi quelles-mêmes immortelles.</i></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Voici la fine sauterelle,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">La nourriture de saint Jean.</span></b></p> - -<p>«<i>Et erat Joannes vestitus pilis cameli, et zona pellicea, circa -lumbos ejus, et locustas, et mel silvestre edebat.</i>» S. Marc. I, 6.</p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">La femelle de l'alcyon,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">L'Amour, les volantes Sirènes</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Savent de mortelles chansons</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dangereuses et inhumaines.</span></b></p> - - -<p><i>Les navigateurs, entendant chanter la femelle de l'alcyon, -s'apprêtaient à mourir, sauf toutefois vers la mi-décembre, où ces -oiseaux font leurs nids, et l'on pensait qu'alors la mer était calme. -Quant à l'Amour et quant aux Sirènes, ces oiseaux merveilleux -chantent si harmonieusement que la vie même de celui qui les écoute -n'est pas un prix trop élevé pour payer une telle musique.</i></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Ce chérubin.</span></b></p> - - -<p><i>On distingue parmi les hiérarchies célestes, vouées au service et à -la gloire de la divinité, des êtres aux formes inconnues et de la plus -surprenante beauté. Les chérubins sont des bœufs ailés, mais aucunement -monstrueux.</i></p> - - - - -<p><b><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Quand le bon Dieu l'aura permis.</span></b></p> - - -<p><i>Ceux qui s'exercent à la poésie ne recherchent et n'aiment rien autre -que la perfection qui est Dieu lui-même. Et cette divine bonté, cette -suprême perfection abandonneraient ceux dont la vie n'a eu pour but -que de les découvrir et de les glorifier? Cela paraît impossible, et, à -mon sens, les poètes ont le droit d'espérer après leur mort le bonheur -perdurable que procure l'entière connaissance de Dieu, c'est-à-dire de -la sublime beauté.</i></p> - - - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/best32.jpg" width="200" alt="" /> -</div> - - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Le bestiaire: ou Corte?ge d'Orphe?e, by -Guillaume Apollinaire - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LE BESTIAIRE: OU CORTE?GE *** - -***** This file should be named 60199-h.htm or 60199-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/1/9/60199/ - -Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images -generously made available by Hathi Trust.) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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