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Maurice Du Plessys: La chanson d’un soir de tempête

Duplessis

Maurice Du Plessys

(1864-1924)


La chanson d’un soir de tempête

 

J’ai sablé le vin, j’ai humé les roses ;

J’ai cueilli la fleur du plus beau baiser :

Je ne trouve plus au fond de ces choses

De quoi me griser…

 

Les jours ont brillé sur ma tête pâle

Sans m’apprendre rien du Tout qu’il y a :

Mon coeur m’apparaît comme sort d’un châle

Un camélia…

 

Jeunesse, éclair ! jours enfuis comme un rêve !

Flambeaux morts de gloire en cendre à mes pieds,

Le Temps vous a pris comme un aigle enlève

Les sanglants ramiers !

 

A mes pieds, des flots ô plèbe insultante !

Du lâche Destin prête-nom menteur !

Arrière, Avenir qu’attend sous la tente

Achille et mon coeur !

 

Passions, passé, crache ça, mon âme,

Comme ces hauts cieux d’éclairs déchirés

Vident par cent trous dans les eaux leur flamme :

Homme, ici mourez !

 

Non, vivons ! Mais si, dans l’atroce lutte,

Je dois au vain flot céder le terrain,

A ma lèvre expire en silence, Ô flûte

Morte dans l’airain !

 

Maurice Du Plessys poetry

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