pringing
Que je m'suis repose; At the oak-tree's foot I lay;
Sur la plus haute branche Sweet the nightingale was singing
Le rossignol chantait. High on the topmost spray.

Sur la plus haute branche Sweet the nightingale was singing
Le rossignol chantait; High on the topmost spray;
Chante, rossignol, chante, Sweet bird! keep ever singing
Toi qui as le coeur gai. Thy song with heart so gay.

Chante, rossignol, chante, Sweet bird! keep ever singing
Toi qui as le coeur gai; Thy song with heart so gay;
Tu as le coeur a rire, Thy heart was made for laughter,
Moi je l'ai-t a pleurer. My heart 's in tears to-day.

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Tu as le coeur a rire, Thy heart was made for laughter,
Moi je l'ai-t a pleurer; My heart 's in tears to-day;
J'ai perdu ma maitresse Tears for a fickle mistress,
Sans pouvoir la trouver. Flown from its love away.

J'ai perdu ma maitresse Tears for a fickle mistress,
Sans pouvoir la trouver; Flown from its love away,
Pour un bouquet de roses All for these faded roses
Que je lui refusai; Which I refused in play.

Pour un bouquet de roses All for these faded roses
Que je lui refusai; Which I refused in play--
Je voudrais que la rose Would that each rose were growing
Fut encore au rosier. Still on the rose-tree gay.

Je voudrais que la rose Would that each rose were growing
Fut encore au rosier, Still on the rose-tree gay,
Et que le rosier meme And that the fated rose-tree
Fut dans la mer jete. Deep in the ocean lay.
Lui ya longtemps que je t'aime, I 've loved thee long and dearly,
Jamais je ne t'oublierai. I 'll love thee, sweet, for aye.

_A la Claire Fontaine_ has been claimed for Franche-Comte, Brittany,
and Normandy, but the best authorities have come to the conclusion,
from a comparison of the different versions, that it is Norman. In
_Malbrouck s'en va-t-en-guerre_, we have a song which was sung in the
time of the _Grand Monarque_. Of its popularity with the French
Canadians, we have an example in General Strange's reply to the 65th, a
French Canadian regiment, during the second Northwest rebellion. One
morning, after weeks of te