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142 Rostand
Forgets not to make exquisite the small!
Tis thou that, cutting out a silhouette,
To all thou beamest on dost fasten this dark twin,
Doubling the number of delightful shapes,
Appointing to each thing its shadow,
More charming often than itself.
I praise thee, Sun! Thou sheddest roses on the air,
Diamonds on the stream, enchantment on the hill;
A poor dull tree thou takest and turnest to green rapture,
O Sun, without whose golden magic things
Would be no more than what they are!
In the atmosphere of persecution and hatred
Chantecler continues to hope and to work for his
sublime mission of bringing the golden day. But
his passion for the pheasant hen proves his Water
loo. It is through her that he grows weak, dis
closing his secret. Because of her he attends the
silly five o clock function at the guinea hen s, and
is involved in a prize fight. His passion teaches
him to understand life and the frailties of his fel
low creatures. He learns the greatest of all truths,
that
"
it is the struggle for, rather than the
attainment of, the ideal, which must forever in
spire the sincere, honest idealist." Indeed, it is
life which teaches Chantecler that if he cannot
wake the dawn, he must rouse mankind to greet
the sun.
Chantecler finds himself in a trying situation
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