How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,  
  To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,  
  As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,  
  Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal: A Bilingual Edition (ed. University of Chicago Press, 2000) - ISBN: 9780226039268























