vit sur les bûchers ... A line of great power

Page 19. 1. 33. Qui, te faisant atroce en te fouettant r humeur: a somewhat awkward line, i. e, * which, by exasperating thy temper, making thee odious, . . .'

Il6 ÏAMBES ET POÈMES

Melpomène. (MS. : ïambe xii.)

Page 19. The first stanza is an invocation to the Muse, who was ail harmony and purity in the light of Grecian days.

In the second stanza the poet, with corrosive acid rather than ink, delineates a graphie though at times over-realistic picture of the stage during * the monarchy of July ' (i. e. the reign of Louis-Philippe).

At the beginning of Stanza i, the poet of V Emeute sets off ces pauvres ouvriers who throng to the barricade out of starvation, and the base purveyors of immoral literature. 1. 6. le ventre : because empty, starving. 1. 12. A fine liquid line among stony verse.