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 | | Cette mer profonde Et debris feconde Fait voir Calme au matin 1'onde Et forage y gronde Le Soir." But this appears to be, not a complete poem, but a fragment of a virelay, which proceeds by shifting or " veering " the two rhymes to an extent limited only by the poet's ingenuity. |
 | | In French the old and popular verses beginning " Adieu vous dy triste Lyre, C'est trop appreter a rire,"form a perfect example of the New Virelay, and in English we have at least one admirable specimen in Mr Austin Dobson's " July " - " Good-bye to the Town! |
 | | " The New Virelay is entirely written on two rhymes, and begins with two lines which are destined to form recurrent refrains throughout the whole course of the poem, and, reversed in order, to close it with a couplet. |
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