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Within the dwindling glow of light from languid lamps	A
Sunk in the softest cushions soaked with heady scent	B
Hippolyta lay dreaming of the thrilling touch	C
That spread apart the veil of her young innocence	D
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She searched with troubled eye afflicted by the storm	E
For the once distant sky of her naivety	B
A voyager who turns and looks beyond the wake	F
To blue horizons which had once been overhead	B
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The heavy tears that fell from dull and weary eyes	G
The broken look the stupor the voluptuousness	G
Her conquered arms thrown down surrendered in the field	B
All strangely served her still to show her fragile charm	H
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Stretched calmly at her feet joyfully satisfied	B
Delphine looked up at her with those compelling eyes	G
Like a strong animal that oversees her prey	I
First having taken care to mark it with her teeth	J
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Strong beauty on her knees before frail beauty's couch	K
Superb luxurious she breathed completely in	L
The wine of triumph and she stretched out towards her love	M
As if to gather in a kiss of recompense	G
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She looked within the eye of that pale conquered soul	N
For silent canticles chanting of love's delight	B
And of that gratitude sublime and infinite	B
Which from the eyelids spreads like a soft breathing sigh	O
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'Hippolyta dear heart what do you have to say	I
Now do you understand you do not need to give	P
The sacred offering of roses of your youth	Q
To one who'd wither them with his tempestuous breath	R
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My kisses are as light as mayflies on the wing	S
Caressing in the dusk the great transparent lakes	G
But those your lover gives dig out their cruel ruts	G
Like chariots or like the farmer's biting plough	T
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They pass across you like a heavy coupled team	U
Pitiless horses' tread or oxen's brutal hooves	G
Sister Hippolyta then turn your face to me	V
My darling heart and soul my better self my all	W
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Turn down to me your eyes so blue and full of stars	G
For just one charming glance divinely healing balm	X
I'll raise the veil for you of pleasure's secret depths	G
And lull you fast asleep within an endless dream '	-
	-
But then Hippolyta lifting her troubled head	B
'My Delphine do not think that I repent our love	M
I'm not ungrateful but I suffer in distress	G
As if I'd been a part of some strange feast at night	B
	-
I feel such heavy dread dissolving over me	V
And black battalions of a scattered troop of ghosts	G
Who wish to lead me off on roads that shift and move	Y
Beneath a bloody sky that closes all around	B
	-
Have we committed then a strange forbidden act	B
Please if you can explain my trouble and my fright	B
I shake and tremble when you say to me my love	M
And still I feel my mouth is yearning at your call	W
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My heart's ease and my dear don't look at me that way	I
O sister of my choice you'll always be my love	M
And even though you were an ambush ready set	B
The first disturbing step along the road to Hell '	-
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Delphine then rising up to shake her tragic mane	Z
As if before the tripod stamping furiously	V
Flashing her fatal eye answered in despot's voice	G
'Who in the face of love dares speak to me of Hell	A2
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Accursed may he be the one with useless dreams	G
Who in stupidity promoting to the world	B
A sterile conundrum impossible to solve	B2
First sought to mix the ways of virtue and of love	M
	-
Anyone who could join within a mystic bond	B
Shadow with glowing heat the night time with the day	I
Never will come to warm his paralytic flesh	C2
At this refulgent sun which people know as love	M
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Go if you will and find some brutish fiance	I
Go give a virgin heart to torturous embrace	G
And livid with your fill of horror and remorse	G
Come running back to me with scars across your breasts	G
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In this world only one true master can be served '	-
But the unhappy child poured out a giant grief	D2
As suddenly she cried 'I feel within my soul	N
An opening abyss this chasm is my heart	B
	-
Deep as the void with a volcano's boiling heat	B
This fierce and moaning monster nothing can assuage	E2
And nothing can refresh the Furies fiery thirst	B
Who torch in hand will burn the flesh down to the blood	B
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Let our closed curtains then remove us from the world	B
And let our lassitude allow us to find rest	B
I would obliterate myself upon your throat	B
And find the coolness of the tombs within your breast '	-
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Descend you victims oh lamentably descend	B
Descend along the path to the eternal Hell	A2
Plunge on into the gulf where all the shameful crimes	G
Those foolish shadows run at limits of desire	F2
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Seething this way and that with a great thunderous noise	G
Flogged by a heavy wind that never saw the sky	O
There never will you find your passion satisfied	B
And your torment will be your pleasure's awful child	B
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Never a freshening ray will shine within your caves	G
Through cracks along the wall will filter deadly mists	G
That cast a lantern's glow of pale and dismal flame	G2
And penetrate your bodies with perfumes of death	R
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The harsh sterility of all your acts of lust	B
Will bring a dreadful thirst and stiffen out your skin	L
And your concupiscence become a furious wind	B
To snap your feeble flesh like an old weathered flag	H2
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Far from the living world wandering and condemned	B
Across the desert wastes go running like the wolves	G
Make out your destiny you poor disordered souls	G
And flee the infinite you carry in yourselves	G

Charles Baudelaire

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