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A poem bewitched and haunted by the older and married Paul Verlaine who engaged a passionate affair with salacious literary sensation Arthur Rimbaud in late 19Th c. Paris: Sentimental Conversation In the old lonely park, frozen and vast Two shapes just at this moment wandered past Their lips are slackened and their dead eyes blurred The words they utter hardly heard In the old, lonely park, frozen and vast, Two ghosts together summoned up the past -Do you recall our former ecstasy? -Why do you want to bring it back to me? -Your heart beats at my mane as long ago? And do you see my soul in dreams still? -No. -Ah! the sweet days of inexpressible Love, when our lips met! -It is possible. -How blue the sky was, and our hope how high! -Hope has fled, vanquished, toward the darkened sky. So through the rank oat grass there they took their walk And only night itself could hear their talk.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:34:19 +0000

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