Fleas, stink, pigs, mold, <br /> The gist of the Bohemian soul, <br /> Bread and salted fish and cold. <br /> <br /> Leeks, and cabbage three days old, <br /> Smoked meat, as hard and black as coal; <br /> Fleas, stink, pigs, mold. <br /> <br /> Twenty eating from one bowl, <br /> A bitter drink -it's beer, I'm told- <br /> Bad sleep on a straw in some filthy hole, <br /> Fleas, stink, pigs, mold, <br /> The gist of the Bohemian soul, <br /> Bread and salted fish and cold.<br /><br />Eustache Deschamps<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rondeau-3/
