From a poem by Patrice de La Tour du Pin (entry in French Wiki here; there is no English Wiki entry), as quoted by S. Hoffmann, Decline or Renewal? France Since the 1930s (1974), p.280, at the conclusion of a piece on DeGaulle's last memoirs:
Comprends-moi: j'ai soif de la gloire
Avec la gorge amère des adolescents
Quand ils prennent leur grand vol doré sur l'histoire
D'un seul claquement de coeur!
[Understand me: I thirst for glory
With the bitter throat of adolescents
When they take their bold golden flight over history
With a single flapping of their hearts!]
Nice metaphor: "with a single flapping of their wings" would be obvious, but "with a single flapping of their hearts" is striking.
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