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“Clotilde” by Guillaume Apollinaire 🇫🇷 (26 Aug 1880 – 9 Nov 1918)
Translated from the French by Donald Revell
Anemone and columbine
Where gloom has lain
Opened in gardens
Between love and disdain
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Made somber by the sun
Our shadows meet
Until the sun
Is squandered by night
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Gods of living water
Let down their hair
And now you must follow
A craving for shadows