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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354396" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alchimie de la douleur (The Alchemy of Sorrow)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">L'un t'éclaire avec son ardeur,<br>L'autre en toi met son deuil, Nature!<br>Ce qui dit à l'un: Sépulture!<br>Dit à l'autre: Vie et splendeur!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hermès inconnu qui m'assistes<br>Et qui toujours m'intimidas,<br>Tu me rends l'égal de Midas,<br>Le plus triste des alchimistes;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Par toi je change l'or en fer<br>Et le paradis en enfer;<br>Dans le suaire des nuages</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Je découvre un cadavre cher,<br>Et sur les célestes rivages<br>Je bâtis de grands sarcophages.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Alchemy of Sorrow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One man lights you with his ardor,<br>Another puts you in mourning, Nature!<br>That which says to one: sepulcher!<br>Says to another: life! glory!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have always frightened me, <br>Hermes the unknown, you who help me. <br>You make me the peer of Midas, <br>The saddest of all alchemists;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through you I change gold to iron <br>And make of paradise a hell; <br>In the winding sheet of the clouds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I discover a beloved corpse, <br>And on the celestial shores <br>I build massive sarcophagi.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by William Aggeler</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alchemy of Sorrow </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One puts all nature into mourning,<br>One lights her like a flaring sun — <br>What whispers 'Burial' to the one<br>Cries to the other, 'Life and Morning.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The unknown Hermes who assists<br>The role of Midas to reverse,<br>And makes me by a subtle curse<br>The saddest of all alchemists — </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By him, my paradise to hell,<br>And gold to slag, is changed too well.<br>The clouds are winding-sheets, and I,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Bidding some dear-loved corpse farewell, <br>Along the shore-line of the sky, <br>Erect my vast sarcophagi.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Roy Campbell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alchimie de la douleur</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one lights thee with his flame, another<br>puts in thee — Nature! — all his gloom!<br>what says to this man: lo! the tomb!<br>cries: life and splendour! to his brother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">o mage unknown whose powers assist<br>my art, and whom I always fear,<br>thou makest me a Midas — peer<br>of that most piteous alchemist;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for 'tis through thee I turn my gold<br>to iron, and in heaven behold<br>my hell: beneath her cloud-palls I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">uncover corpses loved of old;<br>and where the shores celestial die<br>I carve vast tombs against the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Baudelaire">Charles Baudelaire</a><div class=q>
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L'autre en toi met son deuil, Nature!
Ce qui dit à l'un: Sépulture!
Dit à l'autre: Vie et splendeur!

Hermès inconnu qui m'assistes
Et qui toujours m'intimidas,
Tu me rends l'égal de Midas,
Le plus triste des ..."></div>
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