Beautiful, joyful, they are called Blandine, Claudia,
Suzanne, Espérance, Ada Marie, Félicité, Sonia,
Manuella, Magalie, Florentine, Anna, Fafa, Nadia,
Davide, Josepha, Noelie, Lucie, Robertine, Tania,
Christelle, Esther, Nadège, Angela, Imelda, Monia.
Among them you will find Jocelyne, Flore, Nadine,
Sylvie, Lynda, Laura, Thérèse, Ingrid, Pascaline,
Aimée, Alice, Aline, Irène, Denise, Laetitia, Honorine,
Anni, Sandra, Chantal, Peace, Laureen, Catherine,
Belinda, Mélissa, Judith, Brigitte, Karen, Divine.
They bear lovely names such as Aicha, Nelly, Bella,
Elodie, Lydie, Diane, Vanessa, Lysha, Fabiola, Stella,
Audrey, Gilda, Nini, Mareva, Claudette, Eunice, Ornella,
Muriel, Rachel, Inès, Lolo, Séphora, Gisèle, Bijou, Pirula,
Mireille, Joëlle, Niclette, Eugénie, Fifi, Carine, Ursula.
Here or elsewhere, you will make the happy acquaintance
Of Geneviève, Anne-Marie, Francie, Reine, Prudence,
Jaël, Justine, Guylaine, Bénédicte, Joanita, Florence.
They are endowed with beauty, with fine qualities, with endurance
And to your lives they will add a lovely cadence.
Countless though they all are,
And for all the diversity of their names,
There is something singular about them.
What makes them beings apart,
M. Z.
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