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Wow thank you so much! That was such a pretty poem. And I really appreciate the slower reading. I usually go straight for the translation when reading poetry but here I found my self wanting to figure it out. It has been years since my last French lesson and I was never very good. But I found myself pleasantly surprised by how many words I could pick out with a little concentration. I really like the line "sad not pretty" although I thought when I first read it that it was sad not happy. That line really struck me. I also liked the line about the fall night because I understood most of that line and I also knew the trees and plants were singing. I also knew something was dead in the first line but I thought it was a flower. I was surprised and happy the characters were snails. I knew that word looked familiar. I love the sound of this poem and the challenge of decoding it. The voice recordings were beautiful and I listened to them multiple times. What a lovely poem!

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