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When by a decree of the sovereign power	A
The poet makes his appearance in a bored world	B
With fists clenched at the horror his outraged mother	A
Calls on a pitying God at whom these curses are hurled	B
'Why was I not made to litter a brood of vipers	C
Rather than conceive this human mockery	D
My curses on that night whose ephemeral pleasures	C
Filled my womb with this avenging treachery	D
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Since I must be chosen among all women that are	E
To bear the lifetime's grudge of a sullen husband	F
And since I cannot get rid of this caricature	A
Fling it away like old letters to be burned	G
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On what you have devised for my punishment	H
I will let all your hate of me rebound	I
I will torture this stunted growth until its bent	J
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Branches let fall every blighted bud to the ground '	-
And so she prepares herself in	K
Hell's pit A place on the pyre made for a mother's crimes	L
Blind in the fury of her foaming hatred	M
To the meaning and purpose of the eternal designs	N
Meanwhile under the care of an unseen angel	O
The disinherited Child revels in the sun's	P
Bright force all that he eats and drinks can fill	Q
Him with memories of the food that was heaven's	P
The wind his plaything any cloud a friend	R
The Spirit watching can only weep to see	D
How in childhood his way of the cross is lightened	F
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With the wild bird song of his innocent gaiety	F
Those he would love look at him with suspicion	S
Or else emboldened by his calm experiment	F
With various possible methods of exciting derision	S
By trying out their cruelty on his complaint	F
They mix ashes or unspeakable filth with the bread	F
And the wine of his daily communion drop	T
Whatever he may have touched with affected dread	F
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And studiously avoid wherever he may step	U
His mistress parading her contempt in the street	F
Cries 'Since he finds my beauty a thing to worship	V
I will be one of the ancient idols he talks about	F
And make myself with gold out of the same workshop	T
I will never have enough of his kneelings and offerings	W
Until I am sure that the choice foods the wines	N
The 'nard ' the 'incense ' the 'myrrh' that he brings	W
He brings as other men would to the Virgin's shrines	N
And when I am sick to death of trying not to laugh	X
At the farce of my black masses	Y
I'll try the force Of the hand he calls 'frail ' my nails will dig a path	Z
Like harpies' to the heart that beats for me of course	A2
Like a nestling trembling and palpitating	B2
I will pull that red heart out of his breast	F
And throw it down for my favorite dog's eating	B2
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Let him do whatever he likes with the rest '	-
A serene piety lifting the poet's gaze	C2
Reveals heaven opening on a shining throne	D2
And the lower vision of the world's ravening rage	E2
Is shut off by the sheet lightnings of his brain	F2
'Be blessed oh my God who givest suffering	B2
As the only divine remedy for our folly	D
As the highest and purest essence preparing	B2
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The strong in spirit for ecstasies most holy	D
I know that among the uplifted legions	P
Of saints a place awaits the	G2
Poet's arrival And that among the	G2
Powers Virtues Dominations	P
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He too is summoned to Heaven's festival	O
I know that sorrow is the one human strength	H2
On which neither earth nor hell can impose	P
And that all the universe and all time's length	H2
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Must be wound into the mystic crown for my brows	P
But all the treasury of buried Palmyra	A
The earth's unknown metals the sea's pearls	P
Mounted by Thy hand would be deemed an inferior	A
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Glitter to his diadem that shines without jewels	P
For Thou knowest it will be made of purest light	F
Drawn from the holy hearth of every primal ray	A
To which all human eyes if they were one bright	F
Eye are only a tarnished mirror's fading day '	-

Charles Baudelaire

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