The manuscript is an eleven-line poem, with a rhyme scheme ABBAAACACACA, authored for the poets La Harpe and Chabanon, mildly praising their literary talent. The latter was also an actor and a playwright who had been leisuring at Ferney. The poem is a response to ‘Vers de Monsieur de La Harpe à Monsieur de Voltaire, pour le jour de la Saint-Francois’. Voltaire’s response was featured in the periodical press. Additionally, in comparison with other manuscripts, line 12 has minor discrepancies, reading ‘Qu’ils m’ont pris aussi mon’.