The Song of Joan of Arc
By Christine de Pisan
Stanza 3
Now in 1429 the sun began to shine.
The fair season returns anew,
that for so long was not in view.
And many people lived in sorrow
among whom I was one so blue.
But at last my grief I have retired,
and I no longer mourn any more.
For now I can see what I long desired.
Original in French
L'an mil CCCCXXIX
Reprint à luire li soleil.
Il ramene le bon temps neuf
Qu'on [n'] avoit veü de droit oil
Puis long temps, dont plusers en dueil
Orent vesqu; j'en suis de ceulx.
Mais plus de rien je ne me dueil,
Quant ores voy ce que [je] veulx.1
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1 French from original fifteenth century manuscript referenced as Berne 205 and contained in: Pisan, Christine de, Ditié de Jeanne d'Arc, ed. A. J. Kennedy and K. Varty, Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 1977.
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