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Initial post 21 JAN 12 by Margaret Furness
People who have struggled with Google Translate and Babelfish may appreciate the foresight of this poem. I can recognise a lot of French in it, but don't know enough of other languages to see if there are references to them.
THE PARTERRE by E H Palmer, 1840-1882, polyglot and Orientalist.

I don’t know any greatest treat
As sit him in a gay parterre
And sniff one up the perfume sweet
Of every roses buttoning there.

It only want my charming miss
Who make to blush the self red rose;
Oh! I have envy of to kiss
The end’s tip of her splendid nose.

Oh! I have envy of to be
What grass ‘neath her pantoffle push
And too much happy seemeth me
The margaret which her vestige crush.

But I will meet her nose at nose,
And take occasion for her hairs,
And indicate her all my woes,
That she in fine agree my prayers.

THE ENVOY
I don’t know any greatest treat
As sit him in a gay parterre,
With Madame who is too more sweet
Than every roses buttoning there.
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