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Tu as ri de mes larmes ! Sache que tu es la première devant qui j'ai pleuré. Jouis de ton triomphe, ne perds pas un instant, car, cette nuit, je pénétrerai dans ta chambre, éclairé par mon poignard, et, à l'aube, je jetterai ton cœur aux corbeaux. Il aura palpité dans ma main : l'eau de ma fontaine la purifiera. Il aura pollué le sable : le vent effacera son empreinte. Corbeaux noirs, arrivez de l'horizon pour la curée d'un cœur de femme ! Je vous le lancerai, après y avoir enfermé mon âme.
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, Paris: H. Piazza, 1921, p.98.
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This text was added to the website: 2024-12-21
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You laughed at my tears! Know that you are the first in front of whom I've cried. Enjoy your triumph, don't lose a moment, for tonight I will break into your bedroom, illuminated by my dagger, and at dawn I will toss your heart to the crows. It will have beaten in my hand; the water of my spring will purify it. It will have polluted the sand; the wind will wipe away its traces. Black crows, come from the horizon to feed on a woman's heart! I will toss it to you, after I've sealed up my soul inside it.
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This text was added to the website: 2026-02-24
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