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Then, signing to the Knight, he made approach,

And, coming to her presence, luted low;

Whereon the lovely queen made much of him,

While round and round the dancers swung in whirls, I And to the music sang a love refrain,

Rhyming to live with me and be my love’,

And thus they pasSed the pleasant hours

Till, said the queen: Fair Knight come live with us

And be our Prince, But answered he. Not so;

.My wife is dun and freckled, like a toad But she is kind and full sufiiceth me,— Yet e’er I go, fair Queen of Wonderland Although ’tis but a bauble for a queen-- Hereis a diamond in whose living heart *

' A stone is prisoned; and, most beauteous dame, I pray aCCept it of thy courtesy.”

A succession of such scenes failed to shake the constancy of the Knight who was throughout his life known as “Sir Pallinor, the Faithful. ” ‘ - .

But DeRoberval” is the chief of Duvar 3 published poems. .A seigneur of Picardy, Created by King Francis I “Lieutenant Gen- eral of the King of Canada, Ochelaga, Saguenay and countries adjacent” was the first of those enterprising sons of France who. led a party of emigrants from the Motherland to Canada. He sailed from Rochelle in France, with a fleet, in 1542 and landed at EQuebec in August of that year. The record of the enterprise and its failure forms an interesting chapter 1n the early history of our country. Duvar supplies the

ADIEU TO FRANCE

Adieu to. Francel mylatest glance . , _ Falls on thy port and bay, Rochelle; . ’ E . 1 Thesunérays on the surf-curls danCe, " And spring-time, like a pleasing spell, HarmOnious holds the land and sea, How 10ng, alas, I cannot tell E '