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One Evening

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One Evening
One Evening
Alcools: Un soir


Anonyme


Translation A.S. Kline







An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels

         And you sustain me

Let them tremble a long while all these lamps

         Pray pray for me


The city’s metallic and it’s the only star

         Drowned in your blue eyes

When the tramways run spurting pale fire

         Over the twittering birds

And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams

         That a lonely man drinks

Under flames of gas red like a false dawn

         O clothed your arm is lifted


See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners

         A phantom has committed suicide

The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots

         Let us play this love out then to the end


Bells with clear chimes announce your birth

                             See

The streets are garlanded and the palms advance

                             Towards thee