MASKS AND BERGAMASKS

MASKS AND BERGAMASKSAh, Clair de Lune. I love this beautiful piece of music by Claude Debussy, sad and stirring. The title of the third movement of Suite bergamasque is taken from Verlaine's poem “Clair de lune”, which refers to bergamasks in the opening stanza. Such a beautiful thing. Love Susie. x

 

Your soul is like a landscape fantasy,

Where masks and bergamasks, in charming wise,

Strum lutes and dance, just a bit sad to be

Hidden beneath their fanciful disguise.

 

Verlaine