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The daughter had come to meet me
When her parents tried to prevent it.
I spoke soft words to her.
She did not answer.
You will grow old there, you and remorse:
We and love
Shall go home to our house.
Source: Old Songs of Imerina Land, 1939.
-- Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, (Mar 4 1901-1937), Malagasy poet; He was one of the most important of African poets writing in French, considered to be the father of modern literature in his native land.