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brouillard glacé: icy fog, or chilling mist

" Where the chilling vapors rest."

8. si j'étais oiseau, etc. : " O that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I fly away, and be at rest." Psalm Iv 6

This verse constitutes a part of one of the most beautiful anthems in our language. Byron has used the same thought in the closing lines of his poem " I would I vvere a careless child " :

"Oh that to me the wings were given

Which bear the turtle to her nest !

Then would I cieave the vault of heaven,

To flee away and be at rest."

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