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Semper eadem you asked: "what floods of gloom engulf you — strange as creeping tides against a bare black wall?" — when hearts once crush their grapes and close the grange, life is an evil. secret known to all, 'tis but the common grief each man betrays to all, as you your joy, in eyes or brow so veil, my fair one, your inquiring gaze and though your voice is low, be silent now! be silent, simple soul! mouth always gay with girlish laughter! more than Life, today, Death binds our hearts with tenuous webs of doom; let mine be drunken with the wine of lies, o let me delve for dreams in those deep eyes and slumber long beneath your eyebrows' gloom! — Ch.Baudelaire, transl.: Lewis Piaget Shanks |
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