I couldn't find La rose et le vin but will share a favorite from the 33 sonnets composed in secret . Cassou composed and memorized them without writing them and published the works many years after. It is sonnet #5, The Rose of Alexandria:
Rose of Alexandria . . . It was a song
spangled and streaked by rockets on the beach.
And the night effervesced all over, as it does
when the first celebration takes place at home.
Yes, a childlike joy rushed us onto the balcony
and we gazed down at the dancing in the village.
And yet, beloved, your face was shadowed,
and our hands trembled as we turned that page!
Then, with summer, hope came too and brusquely
caught us in its clutches, fantastic hope!
There it was! – Perhaps it is still with us.
We sense something prowling alongside our lives,
across the forest where our steps become wearier,
a ferocious beast, never appeased.
