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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Baudelaire on Romanticism






                                                    The Setting of the Romantic Sun

 

 

 

Isn’t the Sun beautiful when everything freshly awakes,

Like a silent implosion exploding in greeting !

And so Happily then are they who with love

Can bid its departure daily, as in a dream !

 

I remember!... I saw everything, flower, source and furrow,

Fainting beneath the eye like a heart which is palpitating…

-        Run towards the horizon, it is late, run quickly,

To catch at least an oblique ray of light!

 

But I pursued the God in vain which was retiring;

Irresistible night was now establishing its empire,

Dark, humid and funerary and full of trembling;

 

An odour of the tomb and of darkness reigned,

And my heavy feet trod on the edge of the swamp

That was peppered with unforeseen toads, mollusc cold.





 

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