Text by Edouard Guinand, dedicated to Mademoiselle E. Bonnefin. Written in E minor and. (Enoch plate 1133). A beautiful ballad about a girl who meets a shepherd at noon to share a meal by a stream. The accompaniment evokes the sound of a strummed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin, or harp, with flowing arpeggios. Now the poet sits alone, mourning Madeline, whose loss, whether through betrayal or death, fills him with sorrow.