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VOWELS by ARTHUR RIMBAUD

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First Line: A BLACK, E WHITE, I RED, U GREEN, O BLUE
Last Line: -OMEGA, THE VIOLET RAY OF HIS EYES!

A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue;
Someday I'll tell your latent birth O vowels:
A, a black corset hairy with gaudy flies
That bumble round all stinking putrefactions,

Gulfs of darkness; E, candors of steam and tents,
Icicles' proud spears, white kings, and flutter of parasols;
I, purple blood coughed up, laughter of lovely lips
In anger or ecstatic penitence;

U, cycles, divine vibrations of virescent seas,
Peace of the pastures sown with animals, peace
Of the wrinkles that alchemy stamps on studious brows;

O, Clarion supreme, full of strange stridences,
Silences crossed by Angels and Worlds:
-Omega, the violet ray of His Eyes!



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