"Je me fais vieux, j'ai soixante ans,
J'ai travaillé toute ma vie
Sans avoir, durant tout ce temps,
Pu satisfaire mon envie.
Je vois bien qu'il n'est ici-bas
De bonheur complet pour personne.
Mon v?u ne s'accomplira pas :
Je n'ai jamais vu Carcassonne !"
"On voit la ville de la-haut,
Derrière les montagnes bleues;
Mais, pour y parvenir, il faut,
Il faut faire cinq grandes lieues,
En faire autant pour revenir !
Ah ! si la vendange était bonne !
Le raisin ne veut pas jaunir
Je ne verrai pas Carcassonne !"
"On dit qu'on y voit tous les jours,
Ni plus ni moins que les dimanches,
Des gens s'en aller sur le cours,
En habits neufs, en robes blanches.
On dit qu'on y voit des châteaux
Grands comme ceux de Babylone,
Un évêque et deux généraux !
Je ne connais pas Carcassonne !"
"Le vicaire a cent fois raison :
C'est des imprudents que nous sommes.
Il disait dans son oraison
Que l'ambition perd les hommes.
Si je pouvais trouver pourtant
Deux jours sur la fin de l'automne...
Mon Dieu ! que je mourrais content
Après avoir vu Carcassonne !"
"Mon Dieu ! mon Dieu ! pardonnez-moi
Si ma prière vous offense ;
On voit toujours plus haut que soi,
En vieillesse comme en enfance.
Ma femme, avec mon fils Aignan,
A voyagé jusqu'à Narbonne ;
Mon filleul a vu Perpignan,
Et je n'ai pas vu Carcassonne !"
Ainsi chantait, près de Limoux,
Un paysan courbé par l'âge.
Je lui dis : "Ami, levez-vous ;
Nous allons faire le voyage."
Nous partîmes le lendemain ;
Mais (que le bon Dieu lui pardonne !)
Il mourut à moitié chemin :
Il n'a jamais vu Carcassonne !
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