How beautiful a new sun is when it rises,
flashing out its greeting, like an explosion!
- Happy, whoever hails with sweet emotion
its descent, nobler than a dream, to our eyes!
I remember! I-ve seen all, flower, furrow, fountain,
swoon beneath its look, like a throbbing heart...
- Let-s run quickly, it-s late, towards the horizon,
to catch at least one slanting ray as it departs!
But I pursue the vanishing God in vain:
irresistible Night establishes its sway,
full of shudders, black, dismal, cold:
an odour of the tomb floats in the shadow,
at the swamp-s edge, feet faltering I go,
bruising damp slugs, and unexpected toads.
The Sunset Of Romanticism
Charles Baudelaire
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