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Rubens fleuve d'oubli jardin de la paresse	A
Oreiller de chair fra che o l'on ne peut aimer	B
Mais o la vie afflue et s'agite sans cesse	A
Comme l'air dans le ciel et la mer dans la mer	B
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L onard de Vinci miroir profond et sombre	B
O des anges charmants avec un doux souris	A
Tout charg de myst re apparaissent l'ombre	B
Des glaciers et des pins qui ferment leur pays	A
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Rembrandt triste h pital tout rempli de murmures	A
Et d'un grand crucifix d cor seulement	C
O la pri re en pleurs s'exhale des ordures	A
Et d'un rayon d'hiver travers brusquement	C
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Michel Ange lieu vague o l'on voit des Hercules	A
Se m ler des Christs et se lever tout droits	A
Des fant mes puissants qui dans les cr puscules	A
D chirent leur suaire en tirant leurs doigts	A
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Col res de boxeur impudences de faune	D
Toi qui sus ramasser la beaut des goujats	A
Grand coeur gonfl d'orgueil homme d bile et jaune	D
Puget m lancolique empereur des for ats	A
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Watteau ce carnaval o bien des coeurs illustres	A
Comme des papillons errent en flamboyant	C
D cors frais et l gers clair s par des lustres	A
Qui versent la folie ce bal tournoyant	C
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Goya cauchemar plein de choses inconnues	A
De foetus qu'on fait cuire au milieu des sabbats	A
De vieilles au miroir et d'enfants toutes nues	A
Pour tenter les d mons ajustant bien leurs bas	A
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Delacroix lac de sang hant des mauvais anges	A
Ombrag par un bois de sapins toujours vert	C
O sous un ciel chagrin des fanfares tranges	A
Passent comme un soupir touff de Weber	B
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Ces mal dictions ces blasph mes ces plaintes	A
Ces extases ces cris ces pleurs ces Te Deum	E
Sont un cho redit par mille labyrinthes	A
C'est pour les coeurs mortels un divin opium	E
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C'est un cri r p t par mille sentinelles	A
Un ordre renvoy par mille porte voix	A
C'est un phare allum sur mille citadelles	A
Un appel de chasseurs perdus dans les grands bois	A
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Car c'est vraiment Seigneur le meilleur t moignage	F
Que nous puissions donner de notre dignit	C
Que cet ardent sanglot qui roule d' ge en ge	F
Et vient mourir au bord de votre ternit	C
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The Beacons	A
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Rubens river of oblivion garden of indolence	A
Pillow of cool flesh where one cannot love	G
But where life moves and whirls incessantly	H
Like the air in the sky and the tide in the sea	H
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Leonardo dark unfathomable mirror	B
In which charming angels with sweet smiles	A
Full of mystery appear in the shadow	C
Of the glaciers and pines that enclose their country	H
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Rembrandt gloomy hospital filled with murmuring	I
Ornamented only with a large crucifix	A
Lit for a moment by a wintry sun	D
Where from rot and ordure rise tearful prayers	A
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Angelo shadowy place where Hercules' are seen	D
Mingling with Christs and rising straight up	J
Powerful phantoms which in the twilights	A
Rend their winding sheets with outstretched fingers	A
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Boxer's wrath shamelessness of Fauns you whose genius	A
Showed to us the beauty in a villain	D
Great heart filled with pride sickly yellow man	D
Puget melancholy emperor of galley slaves	A
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Watteau carnival where the loves of many famous hearts	A
Flutter capriciously like butterflies with gaudy wings	A
Cool airy settings where the candelabras' light	C
Touches with madness the couples whirling in the dance	A
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Goya nightmare full of unknown things	A
Of fetuses roasted in the midst of witches' sabbaths	A
Of old women at the mirror and of nude children	D
Tightening their hose to tempt the demons	A
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Delacroix lake of blood haunted by bad angels	A
Shaded by a wood of fir trees ever green	D
Where under a gloomy sky strange fanfares	A
Pass like a stifled sigh from Weber	B
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These curses these blasphemies these lamentations	A
These Te Deums these ecstasies these cries these tears	A
Are an echo repeated by a thousand labyrinths	A
They are for mortal hearts a divine opium	E
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They are a cry passed on by a thousand sentinels	A
An order re echoed through a thousand megaphones	A
They are a beacon lighted on a thousand citadels	A
A call from hunters lost deep in the woods	A
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For truly Lord the clearest proofs	A
That we can give of our nobility	H
Are these impassioned sobs that through the ages roll	K
And die away upon the shore of your Eternity	H
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Translated by William Aggeler	B
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The Beacons	A
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Rubens the grove of case Nepenthe's river	B
Couch of cool flesh where Love may never be	H
But where life ever flows and seems to quiver	B
As air in heaven or in the sea the sea	H
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Da Vinci dusky mirror and profound	C
Where angels smiling mystery appear	B
Shaded by pines and glaciers that surround	C
And seem to shut their country in the rear	B
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Rembrandt sad hospital of murmurs where	B
Adorned alone by one great crucifix	A
From offal heaps exhales the weeping prayer	B
That winter shoots a sunbeam to transfix	A
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Vague region Michelangelo where Titans	A
Are mixed with Christs and strong ghosts rise in crowds	A
To stand bolt upright in the gloom that lightens	A
With gristly talons tearing through their shrouds	A
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Rage of the boxer mischief of the faun	D
Extracting beauty out of blackguards' looks	A
The heart how proud the man how pinched and drawn	D
Puget the mournful emperor of crooks	A
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Watteau the carnival where famous hearts	A
Go flitting by like butterflies that burn	D
While through gay scenes each chandelier imparts	A
A madness to the dancers as they turn	D
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Goya's a nightmare full of things unguessed	C
Of foeti stewed on nights of witches' revels	A
Crones ogle mirrors children scarcely dressed	C
Adjust their hose to tantalise the devils	A
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A lake of gore where fallen angels dwell	L
Is Delacroix by firwoods ever fair	B
Where under fretful skies strange fanfares swell	L
Like Weber's sighs and heartbeats in the air	B
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These curses blasphemies and lamentations	A
These ecstasies tears cries and soaring psalms	A
Through endless mazes their reverberations	A
Bring to our mortal hearts divinest balms	A
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A thousand sentinels repeat the cry	B
A thousand trumpets echo Beacon tossed	C
A thousand summits flare it through the sky	B
A call of hunters in the jungle lost	C
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And certainly this is the most sublime	E
Proof of our worth and value Oh Divinity	C
That this great sob rolls on through ageless time	E
To die upon the shores of your infinity	C
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Translated by Roy Campbell	M
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Les Phares	A
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Rubens great river of oblivion	D
garden of ease cool flesh no lovers crave	N
but where the floods of life unceasing run	D
like wind on wind or wave on ocean wave	N
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Da Vinci deep and sombre looking glass	A
enchanting angels haunt with subtle smile	O
all mystery charged while shadows dark amass	A
and pines and ice cliffs bound their prison isle	O
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Rembrandt a piteous murmuring hospital	M
where ordure streams in tears and orisons	A
stripped to the crucifix on one bare wall	P
illumed by one chill dart from wintry suns	A
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vast desert void o Michael Angelo	C
where TItans mix with Christs and twilight clouds	A
where mighty spectres rise up stark and slow	C
whose opening fingers rend their mouldered shrouds	A
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the rage of boxers and the satyrs' lust	C
thou who hast found a grace in toiling knaves	A
great heart in a poor bilious body thrust	C
Puget the gloomy king of galley slaves	A
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Watteau bright carnival where courtly pairs	A
like butterflies in satin flit about	C
flaming in misty groves 'neath resin flares	A
which pour their madness on the whirling rout	C
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Goya who in a nightmare horde unfurls	A
hags boiling foetuses in witches' milk	Q
beldames before the glass and naked girls	A
for demon lovers tightening hose of silk	Q
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and Delacroix dark lake of blood forlorn	D
'mid fadeless firs where evil angels fare	B
a sullen sky wherefrom a faery horn	D
floats faint as Oberon's horn through muffling air	B
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these curses blasphemies and these laments	A
these ecstasies cries tears hossanas fro	C