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Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, La Mort, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861, page 309. Also confirmed with Œuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire, vol. I : Les Fleurs du mal, La Mort, Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1868, page 348. Note: This is the fifth part in an eight-part poem, "Le Voyage". The poem is number 126 in the 1861 edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 151 in subsequent editions. In both the 1861 and 1868 editions of Les Fleurs du mal, the poem is dedicated to Maxime Du Camp.

Text Authorship:

• by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), no title, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 6. La Mort, in 126. Le Voyage, no. 5, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1861 [author's text checked 3 times against a primary source]

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Goll) , no title, Prague, J. Otto, first published 1927
• GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , no title, appears in Die Blumen des Bösen, in Der Tod, in Die Reise, no. 5, Berlin, Bondi, first published 1901

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