Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry
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Chapter 7 No.7

Hast thou found any likeness for thy vision?

O gardener of strange flowers, what bud, what bloom,

Hast thou found sown, what gathered in the gloom?

What of despair, of rapture, of derision,

What of life is there, what of ill or good?

Are the fruits gray like dust or bright like blood?

Does the dim ground grow any seed of ours,

The faint fields quicken any terrene root,

In low lands where the sun and moon are mute

And all the stars keep silence? Are there flowers

At all, or any fruit?

            
            

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