Whitehead, “The Je Ne Scai Quoi,” various readers

1) Read by Ezwa. Source: LibriVox.Download Title

2) Read by Shurtegal. Source: LibriVox.Download Title

3) Read by Sergio Baldelli. Source: LibriVox. Download Title

4) Read by Alana Jordan. Source: LibriVox.Download Title


The Je Ne Scai Quoi

YES, I’m in love, I feel it now,
And Cælia has undone me;
And yet I’ll swear I can’t tell how
The pleasing plague stole on me.

‘Tis not her face that love creates,
For there no graces revel;
‘Tis not her shape, for there the fates
Have rather been uncivil.

‘Tis not her air, for sure in that
There’s nothing more than common;
And all her sense is only chat
Like any other woman.

Her voice, her touch, might give th’ alarm–
‘Twas both perhaps, or neither;
In short, ’twas that provoking charm
Of Cælia altogether.