The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World’s Classics) by Charles Baudelaire
Author:Charles Baudelaire
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998-03-24T16:00:00+00:00
91. Les Petites Vieilles
A Victor Hugo
1
Dans les plis sinueux des vieilles capitales,
Où tout, même l’horreur, tourne aux enchantements,
Je guette, obéissant à mes humeurs fatales,
Des êtres singuliers, décrépits et charmants.
Ces monstres disloqués furent jadis des femmes,
Éponine ou Laïs! Monstres brisés, bossus
Ou tordus, aimons-les! ce sont encor des âmes.
Sous des jupons troués ou sous de froids tissus
Ils rampent, flagellés par les bises iniques,
Frémissant au fracas roulant des omnibus,
Et serrant sur leur flanc, ainsi que des reliques,
Un petit sac brodé de fleurs ou de rébus;
Could I still live and look upon the eighth
Relentless twin, fatal, disgusting freak,
Trick Phoenix,* son and father of himself?
—I turned my back on this parade from Hell.
Bedazzled, like a double-visioned drunk,
I staggered home and shut the door, aghast,
Shaking and sick, the spirit feverous,
Struck by this mystery, this absurdity!
Vainly my reason reached to clutch the helm;
The giddy tempest baffled every grasp,
And my soul danced in circles like a hull
Dismasted, on a monstrous shoreless sea!
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