Verlaine

Weird as Puppets


Scaramouche and Pulchinella
Making evil plans together
Wave their arms, moon-silhouettes.

But the excellent Bolognese
Doctor's picking some of these
Special herbs among the grass.

His daughter with the pretty eyes,
In the arbour, on the sly's
Looking--semi-naked--for

Her handsome Spanish buccaneer
Whose sad affliction she can hear
Well noted by a nightingale.




trns. by Martin Sorrell


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