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Verlaine - ZaunköniG - 10.06.2007 Verlaine Why do you dig like long-clawed scavengers To touch the covered corpse of him that fled The uplands for the fens, and rioted Like a sick satyr with doom’s worshippers? Come! let the grass grow there: and leave his verse To tell the story of the life he led. Let the man go: let the dead flesh be dead, And let the worms be its biographers. Song sloughs away the sin to find redress In art’s complete remembrance: nothing clings For long but laurel to the stricken brow That felt the Muse’s finger: nothing less Than hell’s fulfillment of the end of things Can blot the star that shines on Paris now. |