Ole Miss Juvenilia by Faulkner William;

Author:Faulkner, William;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2018-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

FANTOCHES.

à Paul Verlaine.

Scaramouches and Pucinella

Cast one shadow on the mellow

Night, and kiss against the sky

And the doctor of Bogona

In his skull cap and kimono

Seeks for simples with pale avid eye

While his daughter half naked

Glides trembling from her narrow bed

To meet her lover waiting in the moon

Her lover from the Spanish Main

Whose passion thrills her with a strain

La lune ne garde aucune rancune

W. FALKNER.

CLAIR DE LUNE.

From PAUL VERLAINE.

Your soul is a lovely garden, and go

There masque and bergamasque charmingly,

Playing the lute and dancing and also

Sad beneath their disguising fanchise.*

All are singing in a minor key

Of conqueror love and life opportune,

Yet seem to doubt their joyous revelry

As their song melts in the light of the moon.

In the calm moonlight, so lovely fair

That makes the birds dream in the slender trees,

While fountains dream among the statues there;

Slim fountains sob in silver ecstasies.

— W. FALKNER.

* See Notes on the Text, page 128.

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