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Croquis Parisien

Paul Verlaine

La lune plaquait ses teintes de zinc
    Par angles obtus.
Des bouts de fumée en forme de cinq
Sortaient drus et noirs des hauts toits pointus.

Le ciel était gris, la bise pleurait
    Ainsi qu’un basson.
Au loin, un matou frileux et discret
Miaulait d’étrange et grêle façon.

Moi, j’allais, rêvant du divin Platon
    Et de Phidias,
Et de Salamine et de Marathon,
Sous l’oeil clignotant des bleus becs de gaz.
Online text © 1998-2008 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From Oeuvres complètes de Paul Verlaine, Vol. 1 | 1902
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