Charles Vildrac Poems

IT is at morning twilight they expire;
Death takes in hand, when midnight sounds,
Millions of bodies in their beds,
And scarcely anybody thinks of it ...
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NO water has abiding dwelling-place
Within one feeble hollow of the earth,
Which with the sky is face to face.
Let the noon glow, and the wind blow,
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AT the black foot of trellises, by almond-branches shaded,
At the heart of corbeils, at the breast of bowers,
And all along the loam of avenues,
Are fallen faded,
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HERE, before me, the lamp, the paper;
And behind me this troubled day
Passed in myself
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IT is an inn there is
At the cross-roads of Chétives-Maisons,
In the land where it is always cold.
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MAN whom I work for, I am angry with you;
But not because you pay me to possess
My loveliest day of days, my dearest hours,
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THIS was indeed a spot where sickly earth
Was poorly clad;
Roads strewn with slag, and gathered stones,
And nettle-blinded puddles.
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HOPING for nothing, to walk through the streets,
This is a better fate than men believe,
Because you can behold the passing by
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