Au carrefour des abattoirs et des casernes,
Il apparaît, foudroyant et vermeil,
Le sabre en bel éclair dans le soleil.

Masque d'airain, bicorne d'or ;
Et l'horizon, là-bas, où le combat se tord,
Devant ses yeux hallucinés de gloire !

Un élan fou, un bond...

 How was I worthy so divine a loss,

    Deepening my midnights, kindling all my morns?

  Why waste such precious wood to make my cross,

    Such far-sought roses for my crown of thorns?
...

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  She meets me there, so strangely fair

    That my soul aches with a happy pain;—

  A pressure, a touch of her true lips, such

    As a seraph might give and take again;

  A hurried whisper, "Adieu! adieu!
...

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        Why bends she o'er that glittering toy

            With such an earnest gaze,

        As if those flashing jewels cast

            Love glances in their rays?

 

        By that high, thought-enthronéd brow—...

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  The time for toil is past, and night has come,—

      The last and saddest of the harvest-eves;

  Worn out with labor long and wearisome,

  Drooping and faint, the reapers hasten home,

          Each laden with his sheaves....

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