Arthur Rimbaud - Le Bateau ivre

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I have seen the sunset, stained with mystic horrors,
Illumine the rolling waves with long purple forms,
Like actors in ancient plays.

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Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

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I have bathed in the Poem of the Sea, steeped in stars, and milky, devouring the green azures.

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I long for Europe of the ancient parapets.

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I have seen the sun set, stained with mystic horrors, illuminating the long violet [blood-] clots, just like actors in very ancient plays.

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Sweeter than apples to children
The green water spurted through my pine-wood hull.

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I have seen starry archipelagos! And islands
Whose raving skies are opened to the voyager:
Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep, in exile,
A million golden birds, O future Vigor?

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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

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Sweeter than the flesh of tart apples to children, the green water penetrates my wooden hull.

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