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O m G o d t o as t o u m e t o I y , h u h w nded wi h ve Hop e shines as do th a wisp o f s t raw in the stable ee a calm o a am co m S , rph n , I e A great weariness The Sky is just beyo nd the ro o f I kno w n o t why he so und o f a h o rn so bs to ward the wo o d T — O u r bo dies how they m ake m y heart exp and Lo ng ro ws o f hedges stretch away The sea is fairer O F O LD AND RECENTLY O LD PROLOGUE PI ERRO T KALEI DOSCOP E INTERIOR ART O F PO ETRY T H E CLO WN ALLEGO RY T H E I N N CI RC UMSPECTIO N VERSES TO BE SLANDERED PAGE II . LANGUOR L N C P IV . A DS A E TH E P AND VI . OET THE M USE A E VIII . ROGU I! . MADRIGAL RECENTLY PROLOGUE BALLAD PARSIFAL EVENING TH O UGHT LUCIEN LETI NO I S 0 o m a t —calm m III . w n ! pruden , wise ene y l o ol a t a a m a a fo r o . M V . I h ve ni ve y f ish he r is weak Do t t o call in a a a o l XVIII . es h u re p r dise, de r s u PARALLELLY DEDICATION TH E FRIENDS O N Y I . THE BALCON P P VI . SA HO HARLOTS T R KI I . o THE PRINCESS O U NE N III . CASTA PIA A REFERENCES S P II . FAL E IM RESSION E III . OTH RS B IV. REVERSI LES T N ! V . A TALI ED . P OB B BUTTR VI IM R A LE , UE TH E VI I . LAST TEN PAGE MOONS . t at m a ll o u 0 t m t at l a I I wish , h I y ki y , i e h ys m e was te AF TH E N II . TER MANNER O F PAUL VERLAI E TH E LAST FETE GAL LAN T POEM SATURNINE TH E IMP UDEN T TH E IMP ENITEN T BALLAD O F TH E LIFE IN RED HANDS PI ERROT GAMI N HAPPINESS very O ld already So “ ” ho ! . a tast c c a c t at c m e t t F n i h n e h wre ked , wi u sense o r rhym e Y o u ask o f m e o m o n m o XXV . s e verses A ur m m at l a t the m t o Sal tar XXXI . I edi e y f er su p u us u is SONGS FO R H ER Co m a o a o and oo II . p ni n , s v ry g d tt o r lo XIII . Brune e, b nde Y o u t ru s t the signs O f the co ffee gro unds ’ had n o l c t o m XXIII . I ve u k wi h w enkind O c was m t c bu t i t co l no t la t XXV . n e I ys i , u d s ODES I N H ER H ONOR W ac ll V . hen pe efu y Th t ll m e t o u are t XIX . ey e , Swee , y un rue BIBLI OGRAPHY NOTES LI ST O F P aul Verlaine The Prom en a de The Walk F a nt a st i c s are from PAUL VERLAINE TH E MAN 06ANDERING from lupanar to lupanar , and from - - wine shop to wine shop , he seem s to have stag ere d — n g out of the ages of Petronius some vague , 1 defin ite iia f — creature , l beast and half man a veritable — satyr and who , in the glitter of modern Paris , fared as f a ito s tu u ly as in a fable . O ld Indeed, well might he be likened to the mythical Eum o lu s th e S p , drunken brawling p oet of the atyricon , so reappearing after many centuri es , with a fresh stock “ of mock-heroic verses and amplifying in some dingy é hi s a ca f of the Quartier Latin , tale of the Ephesi n matron .