My years of High School french instruction did not leave me a fluent speaker of the language. Instead, I acquired an understanding of existential philosophy, a fondness for the music of Edith Piaf, and today's poem, Chanson L'Automne by Paul Verlaine. It has a rather bleak outlook of growing old -- perhaps for one lacking a raison d'etre.
The web indicates that this poem is famous, in large, because it was used to warn the French Resistance of the impending D-Day invasion.
A particularly interesting site can be found here. It shows various attempts to translate the poem into english while maintaining its style and rhyme.
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