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Poems from the French of
Charles Baudelaire
Correspondences
Hymn
to Beauty
Correspondences
In
Nature’s temple, living peristyles
Sometimes
release notes in discordant keys;
Man
passes on through the familiar trees
Which
watch him from their hieroglyphic aisles.
...
(Charles
Baudelaire, translated
by Alan Marshfield)
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(For full translation
see the Kindle ebook The Translations of Alan Marshfield)
Hymn
to Beauty
Do
you, Oh Beauty, come from the dark pit
Or
from deep heaven? Infernal
and divine,
Your
gaze pours mixed both crime and benefit:
For
that alone men liken you to wine.
...
(Charles
Baudelaire, translated
by Alan Marshfield)
(back)
(For full translation
see the Kindle ebook The Translations of Alan Marshfield)
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