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Soleils Couchants

Paul Verlaine

Une aube affaiblie
Verse par les champs
La mélancolie
Des soleils couchants.
La mélancolie
Berce de doux chants
Mon coeur qui s’oublie
Aux soleils couchants.
Et d’étranges rêves,
Comme des soleils
Couchants, sur les grèves,
Fantômes vermeils,
Défilent sans trêves,
Défilent, pareils
A des grands soleils
Couchants, sur les grèves.
Online text © 1998-2009 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From Oeuvres complètes de Paul Verlaine, Vol. 1 | 1902
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