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I	A
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First London for its myriads for its height	B
Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite	B
But Paris for the smoothness of the paths	C
That lead the heart unto the heart's delight	B
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Fair loiterer on the threshold of those days	D
When there's no lovelier prize the world displays	D
Than having beauty and your twenty years	E
You have the means to conquer and the ways	D
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And coming where the crossroads separate	B
And down each vista glories and wonders wait	B
Crowning each path with pinnacles so fair	F
You know not which to choose and hesitate	B
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Oh go to Paris In the midday gloom	G
Of some old quarter take a little room	G
That looks off over Paris and its towers	H
From Saint Gervais round to the Emperor's Tomb	G
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So high that you can hear a mating dove	I
Croon down the chimney from the roof above	I
See Notre Dame and know how sweet it is	J
To wake between Our Lady and our love	I
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And have a little balcony to bring	K
Fair plants to fill with verdure and blossoming	K
That sparrows seek to feed from pretty hands	L
And swallows circle over in the Spring	K
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There of an evening you shall sit at ease	M
In the sweet month of flowering chestnut trees	M
There with your little darling in your arms	N
Your pretty dark eyed Manon or Louise	M
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And looking out over the domes and towers	H
That chime the fleeting quarters and the hours	H
While the bright clouds banked eastward back of them	O
Blush in the sunset pink as hawthorn flowers	H
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You cannot fail to think as I have done	P
Some of life's ends attained so you be one	P
Who measures life's attainment by the hours	H
That Joy has rescued from oblivion	P
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II	A
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Come out into the evening streets The green light lessens in the west	B
The city laughs and liveliest her fervid pulse of pleasure beats	Q
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The belfry on Saint Severin strikes eight across the smoking eaves	R
Come out under the lights and leaves	R
to the Reine Blanche on Saint Germain	S
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Now crowded diners fill the floor of brasserie and restaurant	B
Shrill voices cry L'Intransigeant and corners echo Paris Sport	B
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Where rows of tables from the street are screened with shoots of box and bay	T
The ragged minstrels sing and play and gather sous from those that eat	B
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And old men stand with menu cards inviting passers by to dine	U
On the bright terraces that line the Latin Quarter boulevards	V
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But having drunk and eaten well 'tis pleasant then to stroll along	W
And mingle with the merry throng that promenades on Saint Michel	X
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Here saunter types of every sort The shoddy jostle with the chic	Y
Turk and Roumanian and Greek student and officer and sport	B
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Slavs with their peasant Christ like heads	Z
and courtezans like powdered moths	A2
And peddlers from Algiers with cloths	A2
bright hued and stitched with golden threads	Z
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And painters with big serious eyes go rapt in dreams fantastic shapes	B2
In corduroys and Spanish capes and locks uncut and flowing ties	C2
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And lovers wander two by two oblivious among the press	D2
And making one of them no less all lovers shall be dear to you	E2
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All laughing lips you move among all happy hearts that knowing what	B
Makes life worth while have wasted not the sweet reprieve of being young	F2
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Comment ca va Mon vieux Mon cher	F
Friends greet and banter as they pass	G2
'Tis sweet to see among the mass comrades and lovers everywhere	F
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A law that's sane a Love that's free and men of every birth and blood	B
Allied in one great brotherhood of Art and Joy and Poverty	B
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The open cafe windows frame loungers at their liqueurs and beer	H2
And walking past them one can hear fragments of Tosca and Boheme	T
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And in the brilliant lighted door of cinemas the barker calls	I2
And lurid posters paint the walls with scenes of Love and crime and war	J2
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But follow past the flaming lights borne onward with the stream of feet	B
Where Bullier's further up the street is marvellous on Thursday nights	K2
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Here all Bohemia flocks apace you could not often find elsewhere	F
So many happy heads and fair assembled in one time and place	L2
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Under the glare and noise and heat the galaxy of dancing whirls	L2
Smokers with covered heads and girls dressed in the costume of the street	B
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From tables packed around the wall the crowds that drink and frolic there	F
Spin serpentines into the air far out over the reeking hall	M2
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That settling where the coils unroll tangle with pink and green and blue	E2
The crowds that rag to Hitchy koo and boston to the Barcarole	E2
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Here Mimi ventures at fifteen to make her debut in romance	L2
And join her sisters in the dance and see the life that they have seen	N2
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Her hair a tight hat just allows to brush beneath the narrow brim	O2
Docked in the model's present whim 'frise' and banged above the brows	L2
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Uncorseted her clinging dress with every step and turn betrays	L2
In pretty and provoking ways her adolescent loveliness	L2
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As guiding Gaby or Lucile she dances emulating them	O
In each disturbing stratagem and each lascivious appeal	E2
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Each turn a challenge every pose an invitation to compete	B
Along the maze of whirling feet the grave eyed little wanton goes	L2
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And flaunting all the hue that lies in childish cheeks and nubile waist	B
She passes charmingly unchaste illumining ignoble eyes	L2
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But now the blood from every heart leaps madder through abounding veins	L2
As first the fascinating strains of El Irresistible start	B
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Caught in the spell of pulsing sound impatient elbows lift and yield	B
The scented softnesses they shield to arms that catch and close them round	B
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Surrender swift to be possessed the silken supple forms beneath	P2
To all the bliss the measures breathe and all the madness they suggest	B
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Crowds congregate and make a ring Four deep they stand and strain to see	L2
The tango in its ecstasy of glowing lives that clasp and cling	K
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Lithe limbs relaxed exalted eyes fastened on vacancy they seem	Q2
To float upon the perfumed stream of some voluptuous Paradise	L2
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Or rapt in some Arabian Night to rock there cradled and subdued	B
In a luxurious lassitude of rhythm and sensual delight	B
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And only when the measures cease and terminate the flowing dance	L2
They waken from their magic trance and join the cries that clamor Bis	L2
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Midnight adjourns the festival The couples climb the crowded stair	F
And out into the warm night air go singing fragments of the ball	E2
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Close folded in desire they pass or stop to drink and talk awhile	E2
In the cafes along the mile from Bullier's back to Montparnasse	L2
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The Closerie or La Rotonde where smoking under lamplit trees	L2
Sit Art's enamored devotees chatting across their 'brune' and 'blonde'	B
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Make one of them and come to know sweet Paris not as many do	B
Seeing but the folly of the few the froth the tinsel and the show	R2
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But taking some white proffered hand that from Earth's barren every day	B
Can lead you by the shortest way into Love's florid fairyland	B
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And that divine enchanted life that lurks under Life's common guise	L2
That city of romance that lies within the City's toil and strife	S2
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Shall knocking open to your hands for Love is all its golden key	L2
And one's name murmured tenderly the only magic it demands	L2
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And when all else is gray and void in the vast gulf of memory	L2
Green islands of delight shall be all blessed moments so enjoyed	B
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When vaulted with the city skies on its cathedral floors you stood	B
And priest of a bright brotherhood performed the mystic sacrifice	L2
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At Love's high altar fit to stand with fire and incense aureoled	B
The celebrant in cloth of gold with Spring and Youth on either hand	B
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III	A
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Choral Song	W
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Have ye gazed on its grandeur	T2
Or stood where it stands	L2
With opal and amber	U2
Adorning the lands	L2
And orcharded domes	L2
Of the hue of all flowers	L2
Sweet melody roams	L2
Through its blossoming bowers	L2
Sweet bells usher in from its belfries the train of the honey sweet hour	U2
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A city resplendent	B
Fulfilled of good things	L2
On its ramparts are pendent	B
The bucklers of kings	L2
Broad banners unfurled	B
Are afloat in its air	F
The lords of the world	B
Look for harborage there	F
None finds save he comes as a bridegroom having roses and vine in his hair	F
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'Tis the city of Lovers	L2
There many paths meet	B
Blessed he above others	L2
With faltering feet	B
Who past its proud spires	L2
Intends not nor hears	L2
The noise of its lyres	L2
Grow faint in his ears	L2
Men reach it through portals of triumph but leave through a postern of tears	L2
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It was thither ambitious	L2
We came for Youth's right	B
When our lips yearned for kisses	L2
As moths for the light	B
When our souls cried for Love	I
As for life giving rain	S
Wan leaves of the grove	V2
Withered grass of the plain	S
And our flesh ached for Love flesh beside it with bitter intolerable pain	S
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Under arbor and trellis	L2
Full of flutes full of flowers	L2
What mad fortunes befell us	L2
What glad orgies were ours	L2
In the days of our youth	W2
In our festal attire	U2
When the sweet flesh was smooth	X2
When the swift blood was fire	U2
And all Earth paid in orange and purple to pavilion the bed of Desire	U2