Than smoke what swifter can ye name,
Unless it be the lighted flame?
What swifter than the flame? The wind.
Swifter than that? 'Tis womankind.
What swifter? Nothing; she with ease
Outstrips alike flame, smoke and breeze.

Qui va plus tost que la fumée,
Si ce n'est la flamme allumée?
Plus tost que la flamme? le vent:
Plus tost que le vent? c'est la femme:
Quoi plus? rien, elle va devant
Le vent, la fumée et la flamme.

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