The Sea Is More Beautiful, Poem by Paul Verlaine

The sea is more beautiful
Than cathedrals,
Faithful nurse,
Lullaby of death rattles,
The sea over which prays
The Virgin Mary!

It has all the gifts
Terrible and sweet.
I hear its pardons
Rumble its wrath.
This immensity
Has nothing stubborn.

Oh! so patient,
Even when wicked!
A friendly breath haunts
The wave, and sings to us:
“” You without hope,
Die without suffering! “”

And then under the skies
That smile there more clearly,
It has blue airs,
Pink, gray and green…
More beautiful than all,
Better than us!

Paul Verlaine

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