From Poëmes Philosophiques sur l’Homme, Paris, 1795, quoted in The Count of Saint Germain, by Isabel Cooper-Ashley, Steiner, Blauvelt: New York, 1970.
From Ronsard, Poems of Love, selected and edited by Grahame Castor and Terence Cave, Manchester University Press, 1975.
Excerpted from the Contributors’ Notes in The Best American Short Stories 1993, ed. Louise Endrich pp. 363–65.