Saint-beuve thinks the latter one of Jasmin's best works.

"It is full of pathos," he says, "and rises to the sublime through its very simplicity.

It is indeed difficult to exaggerate the poetic instinct and the unaffected artlessness of this amiable bard.

"At the same time," he said, "Jasmin still wanted the fire of passion to reach the noblest poetic work.

Yet he had the art of style.