Tous deux. — Both of us

6. Que baignait la Dore. — Which the Dore bathed. The Dore is a small stream in the centre of France.

6. Et de cette tant vieille tour du More. — And that very old Moorish tower. This use of tant would not be allowable in prose.

7. Où l'airain sonnait le retour du jour. — Where the bell sounded the return of day. Airain, literally, brass, is figuratively used for bell. Référence is hère made to the bell, which, in Catholic countries, is rung for the Angélus, at about sunrise.

8. Qu'effleurait l'hirondelle agile. — Which the agile swallow grazed. Effleurer means to touch lightly in passing, to skim over a surface. It is derived from the old noun fleur, now found only in the expression a fleur de, even with, on a level with ; as, De grands poissons a fleur d'eau voyageant, large fishes skimming along the surface of the water. — Victor Hugo.

9. Compagne. — Companion ; the irregular féminine of compagnon.

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