The Lid

Charles Baudelaire & Cyril Scott * Track #9 On The Flowers of Evil (translated by Cyril Scott)

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Album The Flowers of Evil (translated by Cyril Scott)

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Charles Baudelaire

1909

The Lid by Charles Baudelaire (Ft. Cyril Scott)

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Charles BaudelaireCyril Scott

The Lid Annotated

Where'er he may rove, upon sea or on land,
'Neath a fiery sky or a pallid sun,
Be he Christian or one of Cythera's band,
Opulent Croesus or beggar—'tis one,

Whether citizen, peasant or vagabond he,
Be his little brain active or dull. Everywhere,
Man feels the terror of mystery,
And looks upon high with a glance full of fear.

The Heaven above, that oppressive wall;
A ceiling lit up in some lewd music hall,
Where the actors step forth on a blood-red soil;

The eremite's hope, and the dread of the sot,
The Sky; that black lid of a mighty pot,
Where, vast and minute, human Races boil.

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