Your soul is a choice, bucolic scene With charming travellers in a masquerade Playing the lute and dancing, yet seem Sad beneath their fanciful charade.
All carouse in a minor key Of victorious love and opportunity, They seem not to believe in their delight And their song mingles with the moonlight,
In the still moonlight, beautiful and blue, Birds in the trees dream and sigh by Elegant fountains among marble statues, And the cascades in their ecstasy cry.
Translation of one of Verlaine's most famous poems and the inspiration for one of Debussey's celebrated piano suites.