Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry
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Chapter 43 No.43

"O childish minds!

"Forget not that which we found everywhere,

From top to bottom of the fatal stair,

Above, beneath, around us and within,

The weary pageant of immortal sin.

"We have seen woman, stupid slave and proud,

Before her own frail, foolish beauty bowed;

And man, a greedy, cruel, lascivious fool,

Slave of the slave,

            
            

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