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from the FRENCH of Arthur Rimbaud
 
FIRST COMMUNIONS
                                1
It’s idiotic, these hill churches where
Say fifteen ugly brats defile the walls,
Mauling the holy babble with their burr,
whilst a grotesque intones in sweaty shoes:
But sunlight wakens, as it flecks the choir,
Some ancient colours in the crooked glass.
...
Arthur Rimbaud (translated by Alan Marshfield)

(For full translation see the Kindle ebook The Translations of Alan Marshfield)

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