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“Le Chat” by Charles Baudelaire

By Ernest Hilbert • November 15, 2016 • E-Verse Universe

Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon cœur amoureux;
+++++++Retiens les griffes de ta patte,
Et laisse-moi plonger dans tes beaux yeux,
+++++++Mêlés de métal et d’agate.
Lorsque mes doigts caressent à loisir
+++++++Ta tête et ton dos élastique,
Et que ma main s’enivre du plaisir
+++++++De palper ton corps électrique,
Je vois ma femme en esprit. Son regard,
+++++++Comme le tien, aimable bête
Profond et froid, coupe et fend comme un dard,
+++++++Et, des pieds jusques à la tête,
Un air subtil, un dangereux parfum
+++++++Nagent autour de son corps brun.

“The Cat”

Come, play, fine cat, with my too amorous heart;
+++++++but let your paws conceal
those claws while I bathe in your molten eyes,
+++++++agate alloyed with steel.
And as my idle fingers gently stroke
+++++++your most elastic nape
and my besotted hand luxuriates
+++++++in your electric shape,
I see my love in spirit, and her glance,
+++++++like yours, compliant creature,
so deep and cold, cuts through me like a lance
+++++++while, charging every feature,
a subtle air, a dangerous scent of sin,
+++++++wafts from her dusky skin.

Translated by Jan Schreiber

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