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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Les deux bonnes sœurs
Language: French (Français) 
La Débauche et la Mort sont deux aimables filles,
Prodigues de baisers, robustes de santé,
Dont le flanc toujours vierge et drapé de guenilles
Sous l’éternel labeur n’a jamais enfanté.

Au poète sinistre, ennemi des familles,
Favori de l’enfer, courtisan mal renté,
Tombeaux et lupanars montrent sous leurs charmilles
Un lit que le remords n’a jamais fréquenté.

Et la bière et l’alcôve en blasphèmes fécondes
Nous offrent tour à tour, comme deux bonnes sœurs,
De terribles plaisirs et d’affreuses douceurs.

Quand veux-tu m’enterrer, Débauche aux bras immondes ?
Ô Mort, quand viendras-tu, sa rivale en attraits,
Sur ses myrtes infects enter tes noirs cyprès ?

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Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Fleurs du mal, pages 198-199. Note: this was number 83 in the 1857 edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 112 or 137 in subsequent editions.


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This text was added to the website: 2017-02-12
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Word count: 104