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<head><title level="a">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;IL NEIGE</title></head>


<p>IL faut allumer les lampes dans les chambres closes.<lb/> 
                        Une nuit bl&#234;me, &#233;trange, qui devance l'heure, ensevelit<lb/>
                        la lumi&#232;re du ciel. C'est que la neige est en suspens, <lb/>
                        l&#224;, tout pr&#232;s, dans cette nu&#233; ouat&#232;e o&#249; mon regard<lb/>
                        s'enfonce et se perd. La neige h&#233;site: elle a peur de<lb/>                
                        quitter cette molle nu&#233;e o&#249; elle dort, pour traverser<lb/>
                        l'air sombre en flocons seuls, frissonnants, tout de suite dessous<lb/>
                        en boue hideuse et en pleurs. Elle h&#233;site devant sa destin&#233;....<lb/>
                        Tout &#224; coup, un premier flocon se d&#233;cide. Du nuage o&#249; se<lb/>
                        cache sa naissance indiscernable, il se laisse tomber, duvet de<lb/>
                        cygne, tournoyant &#224; chaque souffle. Il se pose sur le bord de<lb/>
                        plomb de ma fen&#234;tre : &#224; peine l'a-t-il touch&#233;, qu'il expire. Plus<lb/>
                        rien; c'est un flocon perdu.&#8212;Mais un autre se risque; sa fr&#234;le<lb/>
                        &#233;toile de diamant tombe tout pr&#232;s de la place o&#249; le premier<lb/>
                        s'est &#233;vanoui. Une seconde, il demeure, puis s'&#233;teint. Un<lb/>
                        autre voltige et se pose, &#224; la m&#234;me place, deux secondes. Le<lb/>
                        plomb terne du toit commence &#224; briller de larmes, l&#224; o&#249; les<lb/>
                        premiers flocons, isol&#233;s, ont expir&#233;. A part ces larmes, rien<lb/>
                        n'en reste: ils s'&#233;taient trop h&#226;t&#233;s. . . . Mais alors d'autres,<lb/>
                        nombreux, puis plus nombreux et press&#233;s &#224; la fin, se pr&#233;cipitent<lb/>
                        ici, l&#224; plus loin, dans les profondeurs de l'air. Le mouvement<lb/>
                        silencieux de leur vol ajoute du silence au jardin immobile.<lb/>
                        Sur le rebord du toit, ils se rejoignent, ils s'associent: chacun<lb/>
                        pr&#234;te &#224; chacun sa fra&#238;cheur. Et, ainsi unis, ils r&#233;sistent a l'air<lb/>
                        jaloux. Bient&#244;t un bourrelet de cygne continu, sans souillure,<lb/>
                        &#233;blouissant, &#233;pais, couronne toute la maison, toutes les branches<lb/>
                        nues des arbres, toutes les noirceurs des choses. La blancheur,<lb/>
                        doucement, l'a emport&#233;, elle triomphe de toutes parts, elle<lb/>
                        r&#232;gne. . . . En ce m&#234;me moment, je m'&#233;tais arr&#234;t&#233; d'&#233;crire, par<lb/>
                        lassitude, non des doigts, mais du cceur. C'&#233;tait une de ces<lb/>
                        heures grises o&#249; se brouillent en nous les raisons d'esp&#233;rer et<lb/>
                        d'agir. L'image du monde contenue en une pens&#233;e fuyante;<lb/>
                        la volont&#233; qui me fait sauter du lit le matin, je sens que dans<lb/>
                        peu de temps elles ne seront plus; elles p&#233;riront avec moi, et<lb/>
                        ne seront pas reprises par un autre. Ce que je veux ne<lb/>
                    &#160;&#160;triomphera pas. . . . Mais &#224; temps, tu m'as rappel&#233; &#224; la<lb/>
                    &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;v&#233;rit&#233;, &#244; neige parfaitement pure, muette et douce,<lb/>              
                    &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#244; fr&#234;le et fluide, &#244; patiente et jamais d&#233;courag&#233;e!</p>

<p><emph rend="indent4">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<ref target="#PDE">PAUL DESJARDINS</ref>.</emph></p>

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