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Promenade Sentimentale (Promenade sentimentale) by Paul Verlaine (1866); translated by Ashmore Wingate (1904).

THE sun's bright course was e'en about to fail,
While the wind rocked the water-lilies pale.
The lilies great, between their walls of rose,
Shone sadly where the ripple scarcely flows.
For me — I strayed alone, on grief to brood
On the pool's bank, anigh the willow wood,
Where the vague mists evoked a spectre vast
Of milky hue, genius of hopes gone past,
And weeping with the water-fowls' sad voice,
That call each other with a winged noise,
Anigh the willow-wood where lonely fall
My steps, the while I brood. And the dense pall
Of shadows drowned the light about to die,
Of the low sunset, in its waves so grey,
The water-lilies 'twixt their walls of rose,
Great lilies where the ripple scarcely flows.

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