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Charles Baudelaire

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for Maxime du Camp	A
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The wide eyed child in love with maps and plans	B
Finds the world equal to his appetite	C
How grand the universe by light of lamps	D
How petty in the memory's clear sight	C
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One day we leave with fire in the brain	E
Heart great with rancour bitter in its mood	F
Outward we travel on the rolling main	E
Lulling infinity in finitude	F
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Some gladly flee their homelands gripped in vice	G
Some horrors of their childhood others still	H
Astrologers lost in a woman's eyes	I
Some perfumed Circe with a tyrant's will	H
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Not to become a beast each desperate one	J
Makes himself drunk on space and blazing skies	I
The gnawing ice the copper burning sun	J
Efface the scars of kisses and of lies	I
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But the true voyagers set out to sea	K
Just for the leaving's sake hearts lift aloft	F
Nothing dissuades them from their destiny	K
Something beyond their knowing cries 'We're off '	-
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These then whose ecstasies are wide as air	L
As conscripts dream of cannons have their dreams	M
Of luxuries beyond what man can bear	L
Such as the soul has neither named nor seen	N
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II	-
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Our actions are grotesque in leaps and bounds	O
We waltz like balls or tops when day is done	J
Our curiosity rolls us around	F
As if a cruel Angel lashed the sun	J
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Strange thing it is to chase a shifting fake	P
A goal that's nowhere anywhere at all	Q
Man whose anticipation stays awake	P
To find his rest goes racing like a fool	R
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Our soul's three master seeks the blessed isle	S
A voice on deck shouts 'Ho there have a look '	-
Some crow's nest spy cries in romantic style	S
'Love glory happiness ' Damn just a rock	T
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Each isle is named the long awaited sight	F
The Eldorado of our Destiny	K
Fancy that grows us orgies in the night	F
Breaks on a reef in morning's clarity	K
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Oh the inebriate of distant lands	U
This sot who sees Americas at will	H
Must he be chained abandoned on the sands	U
Whose visions make the gulf more bitter still	H
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So the old tramp who shumes in the filth	V
Dreams of a paradise and lifts his head	F
In his wild eyes Capua and her wealth	W
Wherever candle glow lights up a shed	F
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III	-
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Fabulous voyagers What histories	X
Are there behind your deep and distant stare	L
Show us the treasures of your memories	X
Those jewels and riches made of stars and air	L
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We're travellers afraid of steam and sail	Y
Here in our prison every day's the same	Z
Oh paint across the canvas of our souls	A2
Your memoirs with horizon as their frame	Z
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Tell us what have you seen	N
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IV	B2
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'We've seen the stars	C2
And waves and we have seen the sandy shores	D2
Despite disasters all our jolts and jars	C2
On sea on land we find that we are bored	F
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The glorious sun across the violet sea	K
Great sunlit cities dreaming as they lie	-
Made our heart yearn with fierce intensity	K
To plunge towards those reflections in the sky	-
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Rich cities and the grandest mountain spires	E2
Somehow could never hold the same allure	F2
As shifting clouds the shape of our desires	G2
Which left us unfulfilled and insecure	H2
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Surely enjoyment quickens passion's spark	I2
Desire old tree that fattens on delight	F
As you grow older toughening your bark	I2
You want to see the sun from nearer height	F
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Do you grow always taller grandest tree	K
Older than cypress Still we have with care	L
Brought sketch book pieces from across the sea	K
For brothers who love all that's strange and rare	L
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Idols with trunks we've greeted in our time	J2
Great palaces enwrought with filigree	K
And jewelled thrones in luminous design	K2
To send your brokers dreams of bankruptcy	K
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Scant costumes that can stupefy the gaze	L2
On painted women every nail and tooth	M2
And subtle jugglers wise in serpents' ways '	-
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V	K
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And then and then what more	N2
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' childish dupes	O2
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You want the truth We'll tell you without fail	Y
We never thought to search it out but saw	P2
From heights to depths through all the mortal scale	Y
The numbing spectacle of human flaw	P2
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Woman vile slave proud in stupidity	K
Tasteless and humourless in self conceit	F
Man greedy tyrant lustful slovenly	K
Slave of the slave a sewer in the street	F
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The hangman jokes the martyr sobs and faints	P2
The feast of blood is seasoned perfectly	K
Poison of power drains a tyrant's strength	Q2
Whose subjects love the whip's brutality	K
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Religions like our own in most details	P2
Climb skyward on their saints who it is said	F
Indulge their lusts with hairshirts or with nails	P2
As dainty fops sprawl on a feather bed	F
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Drunk on her genius Humanity	K
Mad now as she has always been or worse	P2
Cries to her God in raging agony	K
Master my image damn you with this curse	P2
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Not quite so foolish bold demented ones	P2
Flee from the feeding lot that holds the herd	F
Their boundless shelter is in opium	R2
From all the world such always is the word '	-
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How bitter what we learn from voyaging	I2
The small and tedious world gives us to see	K
Now always the real horror of the thing	I2
Ourselves that sad oasis in ennui	K
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Must one depart or stay Stand it and stay	F
Leave if you must One runs one finds a space	P2
To hide and cheat the deadly enemy	K
Called Time Alas some run a constant race	P2
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The twelve apostles or the Wandering Jew	S2
For them no ship avails no ways or means	P2
To flee that gladiator others know	T2
From infancy how to defeat the fiend	F
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Finally though his boot is on our chest	F
Then may we hope and call out 'Onward ho '	-
Even as once we set out for the East	F
Our eyes fixed widely hair blown to and fro	T2
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Now sailing on the sea of shades we go	T2
With all the plans of passengers well pleased	F
To hear the voice funereal and low	T2
That sings 'This way Come here and take your ease	P2
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And eat the Lotus Here we gather in	U2
These fruits for hearts that yearn for strange delights	P2
Intoxicate yourselves on alien	J
Enjoyment through these days without a night '	-
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We understand the phantom's friendly part	F
That Pylades who reaches out to tease	P2
'Swim towards Electra now to ease your heart '	-
She cries and long ago we kissed her knees	P2
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VIII	-
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O Death old captain time to make our trip	V2
This country bores us Death Let's get away	F
Even if sky and sea are black as pitch	W2
You know our hearts are full of sunny rays	P2
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Serve us your poison sir to treat us well	X2
Minds burning we know what we have to do	S2
And plunge to depths of Heaven or of Hell	X2
To fathom the Unknown and find the new	S2