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The Winged Beetle
The Winged Beetle (1910), PDF p. 233
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LINVITATION AU VOYAGE
MY sister, my child,
How sweet to the wild
To travel and live there together !
At leisure to lie,
To love and to die
In thine own strange native weather !
The watery suns
Of those hot horizons
Have the mystical charm of the years
That mysterious lies
In thy traitorous eyes
As they glitter behind their tears.
There, all is peace and ecstasy ;
Pleasure, calm, and luxury !
Furniture fine
That the years make shine
Shall stand in our own bedchamber.
The rarest flowers
Shed their scented showers
To tinge the vague rapture of amber.
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