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Hommage (Toute L’Âme Résumée)

Stéphane Mallarmé

Toute l’âme résumée
Quand lente nous l’expirons
Dans plusieurs ronds de fumée
Abolis en autres ronds

Atteste quelque cigare
Brûlant savamment pour peu
Que la cendre se sépare
De son clair baiser de feu

Ainsi le choeur des romances
À la lèvre vole-t-il
Exclus-en si tu commences
Le réel parce que vil

Les sens trop précis rature
Ta vague littérature.
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From Plusieurs Sonnets | 1887
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