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Maxime du Camp	A
I	-
For the child in love with globe and stamps	B
the universe equals his vast appetite	C
Ah How great the world is in the light of the lamps	B
In the eyes of memory how small and slight	C
One morning we set out minds filled with fire	D
travel following the rhythm of the seas	E
hearts swollen with resentment and bitter desire	D
soothing in the finite waves our infinities	E
Some happy to leave a land of infamies	E
some the horrors of childhood others whose doom	F
is to drown in a woman s eyes their astrologies	E
the tyrannous Circe s dangerous perfumes	E
In order not to become wild beasts they stun	G
themselves with space and light and skies of fire	D
The ice that stings them and the scorching sun	G
slowly erase the marks of their desire	D
But the true voyagers are those who leave	H
only to move hearts like balloons as light	C
they never swerve from their destinies	E
and without knowing why say always Flight	C
Those whose desires take on cloud likenesses	E
who dream of vast sensualities the same	I
way a conscript dreams of the guns shifting vaguenesses	E
that the human spirit cannot name	I
II	-
We imitate oh horror tops and bowls	E
in their leaps and bounds and even in dreams dumb	J
curiosity torments us and we are rolled	K
as if by a cruel Angel that whips the sun	G
Strange fate where the goal never stays the same	I
and belonging nowhere perhaps it s no matter where	L
Man whose hope never tires as if insane	M
rushes on in search of rest through the air	L
Our soul a three master heads for the isle of Icarus	E
A voice booms from the bridge Skin your eyes	E
A voice from aloft eager and maddened calls to us	E
Love Fame Happiness Hell it s a rock it cries	E
On every island that the lookouts sight	C
destiny promises its Eldorado	N
Imagination conjuring an orgiastic rite	C
finds only a barren reef in the afterglow	N
O the poor lover of chimeric sands	E
Clap him in irons toss him in the sea	E
this drunken sailor inventing New Found Lands	E
whose mirage fills the abyss with fresh misery	E
Like an old tramp trudging through the mire	O
dreaming head up of dazzling paradise	E
his gaze bewitched discovering Capua s fire	D
wherever a candlelit hovel meets his eyes	E
III	-
Astounding travellers What histories	E
we read in your eyes deeper than the ocean there	L
Show us the treasures of your rich memories	E
marvellous jewels made of stars and air	L
We wish to voyage without steam or sails	E
Project on our spirits stretched out like the sheets	E
lightening the tedium of our prison tales	E
your past the horizon s furthest reach completes	E
Tell us what did you see	E
IV	H
We saw the sand	P
and waves we also saw the stars	E
despite the shocks disasters the unplanned	P
we were often just as bored as before	Q
The sunlight s glory on the violet shoals	E
the cities glory as the sunlight wanes	E
kindled that restless longing in our souls	E
to plunge into the sky s reflected flames	E
The richest cities the greatest scenes we found	R
never contained the magnetic lures	E
of those that chance fashioned in the clouds	E
Always desire rent us on distant shores	E
Enjoyment adds strength to our desire	D
Desire old tree for whom pleasure is the ground	R
while your bark thickens as you grow higher	D
your branches long to touch the sky you sound	R
Will you grow forever mighty tree	E
more alive than cypress Though we have brought with care	L
a few specimens for your album leaves	E
brothers who find beauty in objects from out there	L
We have saluted gods of ivory	E
thrones jewelled with constellated gleams	E
sculpted palaces whose walls of faery	E
to your bankers would be ruinous dreams	E
Clothes that to your vision bring drunkenness	E
women with painted teeth and breasts	E
juggling savants gliding snakes caress	E
V	E
And then what then	S
VI	H
O Childishness	E
Not to forget the main thing everywhere	E
effortlessly through this world we ve seen	T
from top to bottom of the fatal stair	E
the tedious spectacle of eternal sin	U
Woman vile slave full of pride and foolishness	E
adoring herself without laughing loving without disgust	V
Man greedy tyrant harsh lewd merciless	E
slave of that slave a sewer in the dust	V
The torturer who plays the martyr who sobs	E
the feast perfumed and moist from the bloody drip	W
the poison of power corrupting the despot	X
the crowd in love with the stupefying whip	W
Several religions just like our own	Y
all climbing heaven Sanctity	E
like an invalid under the eiderdown	Y
finding in nails and hair shirts ecstasy	E
Drunk with its genius chattering Humanity	E
as mad today as ever or even worse	E
crying to God in furious agony	E
' O my likeness my master take my curse	E
And the least stupid harsh lovers of Delirium	J
fleeing the great herd guarded by Destiny	E
taking refuge in the depths of opium	J
That is the news from the whole world s country	E
VII	H
Bitter the knowledge we get from travelling	Z
Today tomorrow yesterday the world shows what we see	E
monotonous and mean our image beckoning	Z
an oasis of horror in a desert of ennui	E
Shall we go or stay Stay if you can stay	A2
Go if you must One runs another crouches to elude	B2
Time that vigilant shadow enemy	E
Alas There are runners for whom nothing is any good	C2
like Apostles or wandering Jews	E
nothing no vessel or railway car they assume	F
can flee this vile slave driver others whose	E
minds can kill him without leaving their room	F
When at last he places his foot on our spine a	D2
hope still stirs and we can shout Forward	E2
Just as when we left for China	D2
the wind in our hair and our eyes fixed to starboard	E2
sailing over the Shadowy sea	E
with a young traveller s joyous mind	F2
Do you hear those voices sadly seductively	E
chanting Over here if you would find	F2
the perfumed Lotus It s here we press	E
miraculous fruits on which your hopes depend	G2
Come and be drunk on the strange sweetness	E
of the afternoons that never end	G2
Behind a familiar tongue we see the spectre	E
Our Pylades stretches his arms towards our face	E
To renew your heart swim towards your Electra	D2
she calls whose knees we once embraced	H2
VIII	H
O Death old captain it is time Weigh anchor	E
This land wearies us O Death Take flight	C
If the sky and sea are dark as ink s black rancour	E
our hearts as you must know are filled with light	C
Pour out your poison and dissolve our fears	E
Its fire so burns our minds we yearn it s true	E
to plunge to the Void s depths Heaven or Hell who cares	E
Into the Unknown s depths to find the new	E

Charles Baudelaire

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