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Little Poems in Prose
Little Poems in Prose (1928), PDF p. 14
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more give forth any but scolding and painful
cries.
And now the depth of the sky affrights me;
its limpidity exasperates me. The insensibility
of the sea, the changelessness of the prospect,
revolt me. Ah! must one eternally suffer, of fly
eternally before the face of beauty? O! no, piti-
less enchantress ever victorious rival, leave me
alone cease to tempt my passion and my
pride! The study of the beautiful is a duel
where the artist cries with fear even before he
is conquered.
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