Poems of Paul Verlaine

EPILOGUE

Fetes Galantes

CLAIR DE LUNE.

Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair, Peopled with maskers delicate and dim, That play on lutes and dance and have an air Of being sad in their fantastic trim.

The while they celebrate in minor strain Triumphant love, effective enterprise, They have an air of knowing all is vain,-- And through the quiet moonlight their son...