Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée is an album of 30 short poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, published in 1911.   I acquired a facsimile copy published by the Metropolitan Museum of Arts.  The album is divided into four sections. Each section begins with an oration by Orpheus, which then is followed by a set of poems depicting animals, insects, sea creatures and some mythological beasts.  Francis Poulenc set six of these poems.  I decided to do all thirty.  Why not?