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Christmas and the Poets reate, whose spirit, if tested, might prove no less noble than that of the stern Puritan:

The historical data for this poem are, first, Uc de St. Circ's statement that Bertrans de Born was in love with the Lady Maent, wife of Sir Tairiran of Montaignac, and that when she turned him out he wrote a canzon, Domna pois de me no'us cal. My translation of this poem appeared first in Poetry and Drama over a year ago. I reprint it here for clarity:

And since you have shut me away from you