To Clymène

06 August, 2009 08:21:00

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Because the rare perfume Of your swanlike paleness, Because the innocence Of your fragrance...

Mystical singing-birds,
Romances without words,
    Dear, because your eyes
      The shade of skies,

Because your voice, strange
Vision that will derange,
    Troubling the horizon
      Of my reason,

Because the rare perfume
  Of your swanlike paleness,
    Because the innocence
       Of your fragrance,

Ah, because all your being,
   Music so piercing,
      Clouds of lost angels,
        Tones and scents,

Has by soft cadences
  With its correspondences,
     Lured my subtle heart, Oh
      Let it be so!

(Paul Verlaine)