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FAUN by PAUL VERLAINE

Poet Analysis

First Line: AN OLD TERRA-COTTA FAUN LAUGHS OUT
Last Line: UNTO THIS HOUR WHOSE FLIGT WHIRLS TO %THE SOUND OF THE TAMBOURINS

Poem Sources:

FOUR FRENCH SYMBOLIST POETS; BAUDELAIRE, RIMBAUD, VERLAINE, MALLARME.
  PESCHEL, ENID RHODES (TR.)
  (1981)
 



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