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J'ai longtemps habit sous de vastes portiques	A
Que les soleils marins teignaient de mille feux	A
Et que leurs grands piliers droits et majestueux	A
Rendaient pareils le soir aux grottes basaltiques	A
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Les houles en roulant les images des cieux	A
M laient d'une fa on solennelle et mystique	B
Les tout puissants accords de leur riche musique	B
Aux couleurs du couchant refl t par mes yeux	A
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C'est l que j'ai v cu dans les volupt s calmes	A
Au milieu de l'azur des vagues des splendeurs	A
Et des esclaves nus tout impr gn s d'odeurs	A
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Qui me rafra chissaient le front avec des palmes	A
Et dont l'unique soin tait d'approfondir	C
Le secret douloureux qui me faisait languir	C
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My Former Life	D
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For a long time I dwelt under vast porticos	A
Which the ocean suns lit with a thousand colors	A
The pillars of which tall straight and majestic	B
Made them in the evening like basaltic grottos	A
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The billows which cradled the image of the sky	B
Mingled in a solemn mystical way	E
The omnipotent chords of their rich harmonies	A
With the sunsets' colors reflected in my eyes	A
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It was there that I lived in voluptuous calm	F
In splendor between the azure and the sea	A
And I was attended by slaves naked perfumed	G
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Who fanned my brow with fronds of palms	A
And whose sole task it was to fathom	H
The dolorous secret that made me pine away	E
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Translated by William Aggeler	C
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Former Life	D
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I've lived beneath huge portals where marine	I
Suns coloured with a myriad fires the waves	A
At eve majestic pillars made the scene	I
Resemble those of vast basaltic caves	A
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The breakers rolling the reflected skies	A
Mixed in a solemn enigmatic way	E
The powerful symphonies they seem to play	E
With colours of the sunset in my eyes	A
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There did I live in a voluptuous calm	F
Where breezes waves and splendours roved as vagrants	A
And naked slaves impregnated with fragrance	A
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Would fan my forehead with their fronds of palm	F
Their only charge was to increase the anguish	J
Of secret grief in which I loved to languish	J
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Translated by Roy Campbell	K
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My Former Life	D
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I can remember a country of long high colonnades	A
Which mirrored in their pale marble the prismatic light	L
Cast from the bright sea billows in a thousand shades	A
And which resembled a cave of fluted basalt by night	L
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The ocean strewn with sliding images of the sky	B
Would mingle in a mysterious and solemn way	E
Under the wild brief sunsets its tremendous cry	B
With the reflected colors of the ruined day	E
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There did I dwell in quiet luxury apart	M
Amid the slowly changing hues of clouds and waves	A
And there I was attended by two naked slaves	A
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Who sometimes fanned me with great fronds on either side	N
And whose sole task was to let sink into my heart	M
The dolorous and beautiful secret of which I died	N
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Translated by George Dillon	O
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La Vie ant rieure	B
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aeons I dwelt beneath vast porticoes	A
stained by the sun and sea with fiery dye	B
whose lordly pillars stark against the sky	B
like caverned cliffs in evening's gold arose	A
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the rolling surges and their mirror skies	A
blent in a grave mysterious organ air	B
the chords all powerful of their music rare	B
with sunset's colours in my glowing eyes	A
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'twas there I lived before 'mid azure waves	A
blue skies and splendours in voluptuous calm	F
while steeped in every fragrance naked slaves	A
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made cool my brow with waving fronds of palm	F
their only care to drive the secret dart	M
of my dull sorrow deeper in my heart	M
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Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks	A
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My Earlier Life	D
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I've been home a long time among the vast porticos	A
Which the mariner sun has tinged with a million fires	A
Whose grandest pillars upright majestic and cold	P
Render them the same this evening as caves with basalt spires	A
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The swells' overwhelming accords of rich music	B
Heaving images of heaven to the skies	A
Mingle in a way solemn and mystic	B
With the colors of the horizon reflected by my eyes	A
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It was here I was true to the voluptuous calm	F
The milieu of azure the waves the splendors	A
And the nude slaves all impregnated with odors	A
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Who refreshed my brow with waving palms	A
My only care to bring to meaning from anguish	J
The sad secret in which I languish	J
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Translated by William A Sigler	B
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Previous Existence	A
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For a long time I lived under vast colonnades	A
Stained with a thousand fires by ocean suns	A
Whose vast pillars straight and majestic	B
Made them seem in the evening like grottos of basalt	Q
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The sea swells in swaying the pictures of the skies	A
Mingled solemnly and mystically	K
The all powerful harmonies of their rich music	B
With the colors of the setting sun reflected by my eyes	A
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It is there that I have lived in calm voluptuousness	A
In the center of the blue amidst the waves and splendors	A
And the nude slaves heavy with perfumes	A
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Who refreshed my forehead with palm leaves	A
Their only care was to fathom	H
The dolorous secret that made me languish	J
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Translated by Geoffrey Wagner	B

Charles Baudelaire

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