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Artist: Daniel Lavoie
Canonical path: /daniel-lavoie/carmen
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Carmen
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Carmen
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Carmen est maigre, - un trait de bistre
Cerne son oeil de gitana.
Ses cheveux sont d'un noir sinistre,
Sa peau, le diable la tanna.
Les femmes disent qu'elle est laide,
Mais tous les hommes en sont fous:
Et l'archevêque de Tolède
Lui dit la messe à ses genoux;
Car sur sa nuque d'ambre fauve
Se tord un énorme chignon
Qui, dénoué, fait dans l'alcôve
Une mante à son corps mignon.
Et, parmi sa pâleur, éclate
Une bouche aux rires vainqueurs;
Piment rouge, fleur écarlate,
Qui prend sa pourpre au sang des coeurs.
Ainsi faites la moricaude
Bat les plus altières beautés
Et de ses yeux la lueur chaude
Rend la flamme aux satiétés.
Elle a dans sa laideur piquante,
Un grain de sel, de cette mer
D'où jaillit nue et provocante,
L'âcre Vénus au gouffre amer.
Carmen est maigre, - un trait de bistre
Cerne son oeil de gitana.
Ses cheveux sont d'un noir sinistre,
Sa peau, le diable la tanna.
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