WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.170 align:middle line:90% 00:00:12.170 --> 00:00:17.000 align:middle line:84% And now I would like to read a love poem from Paris. 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:19.790 align:middle line:84% And I discovered, as many other people have discovered 00:00:19.790 --> 00:00:23.690 align:middle line:84% before me and I pray many people would discover after me, 00:00:23.690 --> 00:00:30.110 align:middle line:84% that Paris is a place to come home to, really. 00:00:30.110 --> 00:00:33.800 align:middle line:84% We stay at a place called Hotel Lenox, which 00:00:33.800 --> 00:00:38.315 align:middle line:84% is on the left bank, and it's right near the river. 00:00:38.315 --> 00:00:43.150 align:middle line:90% 00:00:43.150 --> 00:00:44.890 align:middle line:84% I don't want to say anything offensive, 00:00:44.890 --> 00:00:50.110 align:middle line:84% but that's a wonderful place to go to bed in. 00:00:50.110 --> 00:00:53.630 align:middle line:84% And, well, for one thing, you can get a very good sleep 00:00:53.630 --> 00:00:54.130 align:middle line:90% there. 00:00:54.130 --> 00:00:59.540 align:middle line:90% 00:00:59.540 --> 00:01:03.840 align:middle line:84% Annie had been a schoolteacher in Paris years ago, 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:12.200 align:middle line:84% and she had a friend that there, one lovely French lady, Madam 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:13.820 align:middle line:90% Roudelois. 00:01:13.820 --> 00:01:15.165 align:middle line:90% We'd gone to see her. 00:01:15.165 --> 00:01:16.040 align:middle line:90% She's very beautiful. 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.200 align:middle line:90% She looks like a bird. 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.380 align:middle line:84% My first time in Paris I wrote this little poem 00:01:21.380 --> 00:01:23.060 align:middle line:90% about the "Hotel Lenox." 00:01:23.060 --> 00:01:25.670 align:middle line:90% 00:01:25.670 --> 00:01:32.525 align:middle line:84% "And she loved loving so she woke and bloomed and she rose. 00:01:32.525 --> 00:01:35.730 align:middle line:90% 00:01:35.730 --> 00:01:40.710 align:middle line:84% And many men had been there to drowse awake and go downstairs, 00:01:40.710 --> 00:01:44.970 align:middle line:90% lonely for coffee and bread. 00:01:44.970 --> 00:01:51.570 align:middle line:84% But she drowsed awake lonely for coffee and bread, 00:01:51.570 --> 00:01:56.445 align:middle line:84% and went upstairs with me, and we had coffee and bread. 00:01:56.445 --> 00:01:59.640 align:middle line:90% 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:03.480 align:middle line:84% And then we were so happy to see the lovely mother, who had 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.470 align:middle line:90% been her mother a long time. 00:02:07.470 --> 00:02:12.630 align:middle line:84% In this city, broken on the wheel, 00:02:12.630 --> 00:02:17.820 align:middle line:84% we went back to the warm caterpillar of our hotel 00:02:17.820 --> 00:02:21.420 align:middle line:90% and the wings took. 00:02:21.420 --> 00:02:23.580 align:middle line:90% Oh, lovely place. 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:25.500 align:middle line:90% Oh, tree. 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:30.750 align:middle line:84% We climbed into the branches of the lady's tree. 00:02:30.750 --> 00:02:34.290 align:middle line:84% Wee birds sang and the lemon lights 00:02:34.290 --> 00:02:37.070 align:middle line:90% flew out over the river." 00:02:37.070 --> 00:02:38.485 align:middle line:90%