SONNET OF AUTUMN | Poem by Charles Baudelaire
SONNET OF AUTUMN Poem................... by Charles Baudelaire
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THEY say to me, thy clear and crystal eyes:
"Why dost thou love me so, strange lover mine?"
Be sweet, be still! My heart and soul despise
All save that antique brute-like faith of thine;
And will not bare the secret of their shame
To thee whose hand soothes me to slumbers long,
Nor their black legend write for thee in flame!
Passion I hate, a spirit does me wrong.
Let us love gently.
Love, from his retreat,
Ambushed and shadowy, bends his fatal bow,
And I too well his ancient arrows know:
Crime, horror, folly.
O pale marguerite,
Thou art as I, a bright sun fallen low,
O my so white, my so cold Marguerite.
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