To Madame Aguado, Poem by Gérard De Nerval

Poem by Gérard De Nerval Period 19th century

Column of sapphire, embroidered with arabesques,
Reappear! The wood pigeons fly from their nest;
From your azure headband to your granite foot
The purple of Judaea unrolls in long folds.

If you see Benares, leaning on its river,
Unfasten with your bow your corset of burnished gold,
For I am the vulture flying over Patani,
And the sea is flooded with white butterflies.

Lanassa! let your veil float upon the waters!
Give up the purple flowers to the current of the streams.
The snow of Cathay falls upon the Atlantic.

Meanwhile the priestess with the vermilion face
Is still asleep beneath the arch of the sun,
And nothing has disturbed the severe portico.

Gérard de Nerval

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