Que fais tu bergere dans ce beau verger <br />Tu ne songe gueres a me soulager? <br />Tu connois ma flamme, tu vois ma langueur, <br />Prens belle inhumaine pitie de mon coeur. <br /> <br />Dequoy te plains tu malheureux berger? <br />Que n'ay je point fait pour te soulager! <br />J'ay quitte la plaine, mon troupeau, mon chien, <br />Prend on tat de peine quand on n'aime rien. <br /> <br /> <br />Imitation <br /> <br /> <br />Why thus from the plain does my sheperdess rove, <br />Forsaking her swain and neglecting his love? <br />You have heard all my grief, you see how I die, <br />Oh! give some relief to the swain whom you fly. <br /> <br />How can you complain, or what am I to say, <br />Since my dog lies unfed, and my sheep run astray? <br />Need I tell what I mean that I languish alone! <br />When I leave all the plain you may guess 'tis for one.<br /><br />Matthew Prior<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chanson-and-imitation/
