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FAUN by PAUL VERLAINE

Poet Analysis

First Line: AN ANCIENT TERRA COTTA FAUN %LAUGHS ON THE GREEN: SIGN, PROBABLY
Last Line: TO THIS ONE HOUR, NOW SPUN AND GONE %MIDST TAMBOURINES' CACOPHONY

Poem Sources:

ONE HUNDRED AND ONE POEMS BY PAUL VERLAINE; A BILINGUAL EDITION. TRANSLATED BY NORMAN R. SHAPIRO.
  VERLAINE, PAUL
  (1999)
 



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