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The hedgehog !
Although I am very peaceful,
What I sting and sting and sting and sting
the hedgehog lamented.
I don't have a single companion.
I'm like a bush,
a tiny little thorn
bush that would walk on slippers.
I envy the mole my cousin,
Soft as a velvet glove.
Suddenly emerging from the ploughing
"You must always complain" reproaches
Me for the shrew.
"Certainly, I know how to put myself in a ball
As well as a big chestnut,
But it is especially when I roll
Full of spines, under a bush,
that I prick and prick and transplant
Me who am so peaceful"
laments the hedgehog.
Maurice Lent
Although I am very peaceful,
What I sting and sting and sting and sting
laments the hedgehog.
I don't have a single companion.
I'm like a bush,
a tiny little thorn
bush that would walk on slippers.
I envy the mole my cousin,
Soft as a velvet glove.
Suddenly emerging from the ploughing
"You must always complain" reproaches
Me for the shrew.
"Certainly, I know how to put myself in a ball
As well as a big chestnut,
But it is especially when I roll
Full of spines, under a bush,
that I prick and prick and transplant
Me who am so peaceful"
laments the hedgehog.
Maurice Carême
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