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The noisy street was sceaming around me.
La rue assourdissante autour de moi hurlait.
Long, thin, in great mourning, majestic pain,
Longue, mince, en grand deuil, douleur majestueuse,
A woman passed by, with a sumptuous hand
Une femme passa, d′une main fastueuse
Lifting, swinging the scallop and hem;
Soulevant, balançant le feston et l'ourlet;
Agile and noble, with his statue-like leg.
Agile et noble, avec sa jambe de statue.
I drank, tense like an extravagant person,
Moi, je buvais, crispé comme un extravagant,
In his eye, livid sky where the hurricane germinates,
Dans son oeil, ciel livide où germe l′ouragan,
The sweetness that fascinates and the pleasure that kills.
La douceur qui fascine et le plaisir qui tue.
A flash... then night! - Fugitive beauty
Un éclair... puis la nuit! - Fugitive beauté
Whose gaze suddenly made me reborn,
Dont le regard m'a fait soudainement renaître,
Will I only see you in eternity?
Ne te verrai-je plus que dans l'éternité?
Elsewhere, very far from here! too late! never perhaps!
Ailleurs, bien loin d′ici! trop tard! jamais peut-être!
Because I don't know where you're running, you don't know where I'm going,
Car j′ignore où tu fuis, tu ne sais où je vais,
O you who I would have loved, O you who knew it!
Ô toi que j'eusse aimée, ô toi qui le savais!
