Bateau-Lavoir

Dis-nous  Bateau-Lavoir 

Just below Place du Tertre
About Rue Ravignan
13

There
                 Before the fire
                          Save sovereign tenants
Windows swell to
                                       Divided space 
        Divided fate
                                              And sad shutters shake 
      To palettes poised 
                                                 Where 
     Within your cobbled grave
                                             They played 
To mists of blue
                     
      So, she sat here
                With patroness grace

                                          And, he waited too

            
Dis-nous  Bateau-Lavoir
                                         
                                      Pourquoi ici?

       Now
                                   A fountain plays as

Stranded chestnuts watch
Where demoiselles once posed
To titillate modernity
Amidst this once scabrous place

                                                                             Châz