for you

"claire de lune"
by paul verlaine (1844-1896)

your soul is a chosen landscape
where charming masked and costumed figures go
playing the lute and dancing and almost
sad beneath their fantastic disguises

all sing in a minor key
of all-conquering love and careless fortune
they do not seem to believe in their happiness
and their song mingles with the moonlight

the still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
which gives the birds to dream in the trees
and makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstacy,
the tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.

"claire de lune" by claude debussy is a depiction of paul verlaine's poem...
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