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My soul do you remember the object we saw	A
on what was a fine summer's day	B
at the path's far corner a shameful corpse	C
on the gravel bed darkly lay	B
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legs in the air like a lecherous woman	D
burning and oozing with poisons	E
revealing with nonchalance cynicism	F
the belly ripe with its exhalations	E
	-
The sun shone down on that rot and mould	G
as if to grill it completely	H
and render to Nature a hundredfold	G
what she'd once joined so sweetly	H
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and the sky gazed at that noble carcass	E
like a flower now blossoming	I
The stench was so great that there on the grass	E
you almost considered fainting	I
	-
The flies buzzed away on its putrid belly	H
from which black battalions slid	G
larvae that flowed in thickening liquid	G
the length of those seething shreds	E
	-
All of the thing rose and fell like a wave	J
surging and glittering	I
you'd have said the corpse swollen with vague	K
breath multiplied was living	I
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And that 'world' gave off a strange music	L
like the wind or the flowing river	M
or the grain tossed and turned with a rhythmic	L
motion by the winnower	M
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Its shape was vanishing no more than a dream	N
a slowly formed rough sketch	O
on forgotten canvas the artist's gleam	N
of memory alone perfects	E
	-
From behind the rocks a restless bitch	P
glared with an angry eye	Q
judging the right moment to snatch	R
some morsel she'd passed by	Q
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And yet you too will resemble that ordure	M
that terrible corruption	D
star of my eyes sun of my nature	M
my angel and my passion	D
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Yes Such you'll become o queen of grace	E
after the final sacraments	E
when you go under the flowering grass	E
to rot among the skeletons	E
	-
O my beauty Tell the worms then as	E
with kisses they eat you away	B
how I preserved the form divine essence	E
of my loves in their decay	B

Charles Baudelaire

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