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Quand Don Juan descendit vers l'onde souterraine	B
Et lorsqu'il eut donn son obole Charon	B
Un sombre mendiant l'oeil fier comme Antisth ne	B
D'un bras vengeur et fort saisit chaque aviron	B
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Montrant leurs seins pendants et leurs robes ouvertes	C
Des femmes se tordaient sous le noir firmament	D
Et comme un grand troupeau de victimes offertes	C
Derri re lui tra naient un long mugissement	D
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Sganarelle en riant lui r clamait ses gages	C
Tandis que Don Luis avec un doigt tremblant	D
Montrait tous les morts errant sur les rivages	C
Le fils audacieux qui railla son front blanc	E
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Frissonnant sous son deuil la chaste et maigre Elvire	F
Pr s de l' poux perfide et qui fut son amant	D
Semblait lui r clamer un supr me sourire	F
O brill t la douceur de son premier serment	D
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Tout droit dans son armure un grand homme de pierre	F
Se tenait la barre et coupait le flot noir	F
Mais le calme h ros courb sur sa rapi re	F
Regardait le sillage et ne daignait rien voir	F
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Don Juan in Hades	C
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When Don Juan descended to the underground sea	C
And when he had given his obolus to Charon	B
That gloomy mendicant with Antisthenes' proud look	G
Seized the two oars with strong revengeful hands	C
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Showing their pendent breasts and their unfastened gowns	C
Women writhed and twisted under the black heavens	C
And like a great flock of sacrificial victims	C
A continuous groan trailed along in the wake	H
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Sganarelle with a laugh was demanding his wage	I
While Don Luis with a trembling finger	F
Was showing to the dead wandering along the shores	C
The impudent son who had mocked his white brow	F
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Shuddering in her grief Elvira chaste and thin	B
Near her treacherous spouse who was once her lover	F
Seemed to implore of him a final parting smile	J
That would shine with the sweetness of his first promises	C
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Erect in his armor a tall man carved from stone	B
Was standing at the helm and cutting the black flood	D
But the hero unmoved leaning on his rapier	F
Kept gazing at the wake and deigned not look aside	D
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Translated by William Aggeler	F
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Don Juan in Hell	K
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When having reached the subterranean wave	L
Don Juan paid his passage from the shore	F
Proud as Antisthenes a surly knave	L
With vengeful arms laid hold of either oar	F
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With hanging breasts between their mantles showing	M
Sad women writhing under the black sky	N
Made as they went the sound of cattle lowing	M
As from a votive herd that's led to die	N
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Sganarelle for his wages seemed to linger	F
And laughed while to the dead assembled there	F
Don Luis pointed out with trembling finger	F
The son who dared to flout his silver hair	F
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Chilled in her crepe the chaste and thin Elvira	F
Standing up close to her perfidious spouse	C
Seemed to be pleading from her old admirer	F
For that which thrilled his first unbroken vows	C
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A great stone man in armour leaped aboard	D
Seizing the helm the coal black wave he cleft	D
But the calm hero leaning on his sword	D
Had eyes for nothing but the wake they left	D
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Translated by Roy Campbell	O
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Don Juan in Hades	C
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He found the wide bark rocking in the Stygian breeze	C
And came aboard having first paid Charon what he owed	D
A beggar somber and haughty as Antisthenes	C
Seized the long oars with a revengeful gesture and rowed	D
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Writhing and tearing open their garments while he crossed	D
A crowd of disappointed females herded there	F
Along the bank like victims for a holocaust	D
Filled with a soft and bestial moaning the dark air	F
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Sganarelle laughed triumphantly demanding his wage	I
Don Luis still wrathful pointed with a palsied hand	D
To the unruly son who mocked him in his old age	I
Calling to witness the dead throngs upon that strand	D
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She whom he wed in church and loved a little while	J
Elvira thin and trembling in her black robes of grief	P
Seemed to implore of her betrayer a last smile	J
In memory of his first ardor noble and brief	P
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The knight he murdered and whose ghost he had rebuked	D
Stood now a tall and cuirassed helmsman at the stem	Q
But the calm hero leaning upon his rapier looked	D
Absently into the water ignoring all of them	Q
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Translated by George Dillon	B
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Don Juan in Hades	C
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When the hidalgo reached the subterranean seas	C
And with an obol paid Charon's accustomed score	F
A gloomy beggarman proud as Antisthenes	C
With strong revengeful hands seized either trailing oar	F
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With sagging breasts and gray unfastened gowns a crowd	D
Of women writhed in woe under a leaden sky	N
In their grim wake a groan trailed mournfully and loud	D
Like flocks of sacrificial victims trudging by	N
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Sganarelle grinning claimed his wages dour and lank	E
Don Luis with trembling finger pointed at the prow	F
To show the phantoms wandering on the river bank	E
That impious son who mocked his father's snow white brow	F
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Elvira chaste and gaunt shuddered in sorrow while	J
Beside her traitorous spouse her lover once she seemed	D
To crave the favor of an ultimate bright smile	J
Sweet as his first made vows and as the dream she dreamed	D
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Erect in coat of mail a tall man hewn of stone	B
Stood at the helm cleaving the flood But in mute pride	D
Leaning upon his sword impassive and alone	B
The hero watched the wave nor deigned to look aside	D
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq	R

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