The Venal Muse

Charles Baudelaire & Cyril Scott * Track #35 On The Flowers of Evil (translated by Cyril Scott)

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Charles Baudelaire

1909

The Venal Muse by Charles Baudelaire (Ft. Cyril Scott)

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Charles BaudelaireCyril Scott

The Venal Muse Annotated

Oh Muse of my heart—so fond of palaces old,
Wilt have—when New Year speeds its wintry blast,
Amid those tedious nights, with snow o'ercast,
A log to warm thy feet, benumbed with cold?

Wilt thou thy marbled shoulders then revive
With nightly rays that through thy shutters peep?
And—void thy purse and void thy palace—reap
A golden hoard within some azure hive?

Thou must, to earn thy daily bread, each night,
Suspend the censer like an acolyte,
Te-Deums sing, with sanctimonious ease,

Or as a famished mountebank, with jokes obscene
Essay to lull the vulgar rabble's spleen;
Thy laughter soaked in tears which no one sees.

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