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LITTLE AIR: 2 by STEPHANE MALLARME

Poem Explanation

First Line: INEXORABLY BOUND / AS MY HOPE LAUNCHING HIGH
Last Line: ON SOME PATH TO STAY!
Subject(s): DESPAIR;

Inexorably bound
As my hope launching high
To shatter there lost
In fury and silence,

Voice strange to the grove
Or by no echo trailed,
The bird in life never
Another time heard.

The eerie musician,
Leaving in doubt
If from my breast not his
The wilder sob broke out,

Goes torn asunder away
On some path to stay!



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