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I The Blackness	A
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In vaults of fathomless obscurity	B
Where Destiny has sentenced me for life	C
Where cheerful rosy beams may never shine	D
Where living with that sullen hostess Night	E
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I am an artist that a mocking God	F
Condemns alas to paint the gloom itself	G
Where like a cook with ghoulish appetite	E
I boil and devour my own heart	H
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Sometimes there sprawls and stretches out and glows	I
A splendid ghost of a surpassing charm	J
And when this vision growing in my sight	E
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In oriental languor like a dream	K
Is fully formed I know the phantom's name	L
Yes it is She though black yet full oflight	E
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II The Perfume	M
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During your lifetime reader have you breathed	E
Slow savouring to the point of dizziness	A
That grain of incense which fills up a church	N
Or the pervasive musk of a sachet	E
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Magical charm in which the past restored	E
Intoxicates us with its presence here	O
So from the body of his well beloved	E
The lover plucks remembrance's bright bloom	M
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Out of the phantom's dense resilient locks	P
Living sachet censer of the alcove	Q
Would rise an alien and tawny scent	E
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And all her clothes of muslin or of plush	R
Redolent as they were with her pure youth	S
Released the soft perfume of thickest fur	T
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III The Frame	L
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Just as the frame adds to the painter's art	E
Although the brush itself be highly praised	E
A something that is captivating strange	U
Setting it off from all in nature else	V
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So jewels and metals gildings furnishings	W
Exactly fit her rich and rare appeal	X
Nothing offends her perfect clarity	E
And all would seem a frame for her display	E
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And one could say at times that she believed	E
Everything loved her in that she would bathe	Y
Freely voluptuously her nudity	E
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In kisses of the linen and the silk	Z
And with each charming movement slow or quick	A2
Display a cunning monkey's childlike grace	B2
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IV The Portrait	E
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Disease and Death make only dust and ash	C2
Of all the fire that blazed so bright for us	A
Of those great eyes so tender and so warm	D2
Of this mouth where my heart has drowned itself	G
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Of kisses puissant as a healing balm	E2
Of transports more intense than flaring light	E
What now remains Appalling o my soul	F2
Only a fading sketch in three pale tones	G2
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Like me dying away in solitude	E
And which Time that maleficent old man	H2
Each day rubs over with his churlish wing	I2
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Time you black murderer of Life and Art	E
You'll never kill her in my memory	E
Not She who was my pleasure and my pride	E

Charles Baudelaire

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