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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LES PAS, by PAUL VALERY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Your footfalls, children of my silence
Last Line: And your footfall was my heart-beat.
First Line: Your footfalls, children of my silence
Last Line: And your footfall was my heart-beat.
Your footfalls, children of my silence,
religiously and slowly placed
move on, in ice and muteness traced
toward the bed of my vigilance.
Pure person! Shadow without blame!
How hesitant and yet how sweet!
God! ... all the gifts that I might name
now come to me on these bare feet.
If with your yearning lips and tongue
you bring, that he may sustenance find,
to the inhabitant of my mind
the flesh of love to essence wrung,
let not desires in act yet meet:
its nonbeing has sweetness too
for my life was awaiting you
and your footfall was my heart-beat.
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