Revoici dans l'ombre du soir,
La cloche du cloître qui tinte.
Tu as chanté dans le bois noir
Comme devait chanter les saintes.
Tu rentres pareil au berger
Qui se hâte vers son étable
Et ne sait pourquoi cette étoile
Tremble si fort sur le verger.
Saint — a dead sinner revised and edited.
The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: "I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool."