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144 almost everything; and the form of the poem as it stands, written in old French, is all Du Bellay's own. It is a song which the winnowers are supposed to sing as they winnow the corn, and they invoke the winds to lie lightly on the grain.

That has in the highest degree the qualities, the value of the whole Pleiad school of poetry, of the