Syracuse [English translation]

How I'd love to see Syracuse

Easter Island and Kairouan

And the seabirds getting

amused

By hovering up in the wind

To see the Babylon Gardens

To see the Great Lama's palace

To dream of lovers in Verona

While being atop mount Fuji.

To see the peaceful morning Land

To fish with a tame cormorant

And to get tipsy with palm-wine

Just hearing the wind moan and whine

Before my youth is gone and used

Before my springs go all amiss,

How I'd love to see Syracuse

To remember it in Paris.

• Artist:Henri Salvador