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Album The Flowers of Evil (translated by Cyril Scott)

Ill Luck by Charles Baudelaire (Ft. Cyril Scott)

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Charles BaudelaireCyril Scott

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This heavy burden to uplift,
O Sisyphus, thy pluck is required!
And even though the heart aspired,
Art is long and Time is swift.

Afar from sepulchres renowned,
To a graveyard, quite apart,
Like a broken drum, my heart,
Beats the funeral marches' sound.

Many a buried jewel sleeps
In the long-forgotten deeps,
Far from mattock and from sound;

Many a flower wafts aloft
Its perfumes, like a secret soft,
Within the solitudes, profound.

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