Rimbaud‑Gedicht
Language: French (Français) after the French (Français)
À quatre heures du matin, l'été,
Le sommeil d'amour dure encore.
Sous les bocages s'évapore
L'odeur du soir fêté.
Là-bas, dans leur vaste chantier,
Au soleil des Hespérides,
Déjà s'agitent, en bras de chemise,
Les Charpentiers.
Dans leurs Déserts de mousse,
Tranquilles, ils préparent
Les lambris précieux
Où la ville peindra de faux cieux.
O, pour ces Ouvriers charmants
Sujets d'un roi de Babylone,
Vénus! quitte un instant les Amants
Dont l'âme est en couronne!
O Reine des Bergers,
Porte aux travailleurs l'eau-de-vie,
Que leurs forces soient en paix
En attendant le bain dans la mer à midi.
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Rimbaud‑Poem
Language: English after the French (Français)
At four o'clock on a summer's morning,
love still sleeps.
The odors of the evening's revels evaporate
under the bushes.
Far off, in their great construction site
in the Hesperidean sun,
the carpenters are already
stripped for action.
In their mossy deserts,
they tranquilly prepare
the precious panels
on which the city will paint a false heaven.
Oh, for these charming workmen,
subjects of the King of Babylon,
Venus, leave for a moment your lovers
whose souls are crowned.
Queen of Shepherds,
bring the workers the water of life,
to calm their strength as they wait to swim
in the sea at noontide.
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