Spring is evidently here; for
The ascent of Thiers and Picard
From the green Estates lays
Its splendours wide open!
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O May! What delirious bare bums!
O Sèvres Meudon, Bagneux, Asnières
Listen now to the welcome arrivals
Scattering springtime joys!
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They have shakos, and sabers, and tom-toms
And none of the old candleboxes;
And skiffs which have nev... nev...
Are cutting the lake of bloodstained waters!
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More than ever before, we roister
As on to our ant-heaps come
Tumbling the yellow heads
On these extraordinary dawns:
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Thiers and Picard are Cupids;
And beheaders of sunflowers too;
They paint Corots with insecticide:
Look how their tropes de-cockchafer the trees...
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They're familiars of the Great What's-his-name!...
And Favre, lying among the irisis
Blinks and weeps crocodile tears
And sniffs his peppery sniff!
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The Big City has hot cobblestones
In spite of your showers of paraffin;
And decidedly we shall have
To liven you up in your parts...
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And the Rustics who take their ease
In long squattings
Will hear boughs breaking
Among the red rustlings
The ascent of Thiers and Picard
From the green Estates lays
Its splendours wide open!
______
O May! What delirious bare bums!
O Sèvres Meudon, Bagneux, Asnières
Listen now to the welcome arrivals
Scattering springtime joys!
______
They have shakos, and sabers, and tom-toms
And none of the old candleboxes;
And skiffs which have nev... nev...
Are cutting the lake of bloodstained waters!
______
More than ever before, we roister
As on to our ant-heaps come
Tumbling the yellow heads
On these extraordinary dawns:
______
Thiers and Picard are Cupids;
And beheaders of sunflowers too;
They paint Corots with insecticide:
Look how their tropes de-cockchafer the trees...
______
They're familiars of the Great What's-his-name!...
And Favre, lying among the irisis
Blinks and weeps crocodile tears
And sniffs his peppery sniff!
______
The Big City has hot cobblestones
In spite of your showers of paraffin;
And decidedly we shall have
To liven you up in your parts...
______
And the Rustics who take their ease
In long squattings
Will hear boughs breaking
Among the red rustlings
( Arthur Rimbaud )
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