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SACRÉ-COEUR!
Sacré-Coeur!
I can see you O Baby’s Bottle With your big cross-shaped teat Sacré-Coeur! you’re seven baby’s bottles! I can see you all clearly from the bottom of the slope on square Saint-Pierre three small bottles three middle-sized bottles and one big one In the evening the glory of the sky splits open so that the angels can come and suck three small bottles three middle-sized bottles But you big bottle you’re for Baby Jesus ah! let’s hope he doesn’t hurt his lips on your cross-shaped teat |
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© 2002, Jacques Roubaud |
© Translation: 2002, Ian Monk |