Poets' Corner
THE VAMPIRE (Closely translated from the French of Charles Baudelaire.) (For THE SUN.) You who, in my heart unwarned have entered like a dagger-blow, you who, foolish and adorned, strong as a troop of devils go in my humiliated mind to make your heel and your domain —wretch to whom I am confined as the convict to the chain, as to the game the headstrong player, as to the bottle the drunken man, as to the worms the refuse-can —- “Cursed be you;* is my prayer. I have besought the rapid blade to win my freedom, and asked this, whispering, perfidious poison’s aid, for succour in my cowardice. Alas ’ the poison and the blade turned in disdain, and said to me: ‘•You are not worthy of our aid in your accursed slavery, imbecile! for from her empire if our efforts rescued you your kisses would revive anew the dead body of your vampire /” GEOFFREY DE MONTALK. Paris.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 29
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158Poets' Corner Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 29
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