from "Street Songs"

                       VI

             THE GLAZIER

The pure sun - throwing off

Too much brightness to measure -

Dazzled, contrives to doff
Its shirt on the back of the glazier.



                     VIII

THE OLD-CLOTHES WOMAN

The piercing eye with which you see
What they contain essentially
Separates my rags from me
And naked I go as a deity.



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by Stephane Mallarme, 1889