Dear students,

A famous poet has said that we are all born as poets. The experience of a poem is much different when hearing it read rather than reading it silently. I will encourage you to read the following poem out loud at your room before you start to look at it more closely. 

Have a great day today. Do not worry. Better times are ahead of us.
fm

THE LION IN LOVE

A Lion from highly ranking parents,  
While walking through a certain pasture, 
Met a Sheperdess to his liking :
He asked for her in marriage. 
The father would have prefered 
A son in law a little less scary. 
To give her to him seemed very harsh; 
To refuse her was not so wise; 
Even a  rejection might have  made it possible 
That some fine morning we'd have seen 
A clandestine marriage. 
Furthermore anyway
The beautiful girl was meant for noble people, 
-Daughter becomes easily infatuated with
A long  maned lover. 
So the father openly 
Not daring to dismiss the lover, 
Said to him: "My daughter is delicate; 
Your claws could wound her 
When you'll wish to caress her. 
Allow therefore that each paw of yours
Be declawed, and  that your teeth, 
Be filed down at the same time. 
Your kisses will be less harsh, 
And for you more delicious; 
Because my daughter will respond to them better, 
Being without these worries. 
The Lion consented, 
His heart was so blinded! 
Without teeth or claws here he is, 
Like a dismantled room. 
A few dogs were turned aloose on him: 
He did not resist much. 
Love, Love when thou holdest us 
One can well say: "Farewell prudence."

* Sévigné (Marie de Rabutain-Chantal, Marquise de) 
born in Paris (1626-1696) wrote "letters" for more 
than thirty years.