SAMAIN (Albert). - Lot 199

SAMAIN (Albert). Born in Lille. 1858-1900. Symbolist poet. Poem A. S.l.n.d. 1 page 1/4 in-8. in-8. Working manuscript with numerous erasures and corrections. ...Slow and pensive along the autumn stillAs you take up the unfinished dreamMelancholy and melancholically fadingAnd our thoughts still follow in solitudeThe unfinished dream that enchants us(...) The crimson sun expires at the end of the avenue Floats a sweet death, a death of poison On a note in the distance in dolent continuity (sustained) Et voici que l'heure de mourir est venue Et vous que la suprême heure est advenue O you, my sister still, tomorrow my unknown, O You, whom an insensible betrayal takes away Do you see our heart (...) This red sun that sinks, heart of crimson at the bottom of the avenueWhile this last ray gilds the wood Each of us rediscovers the dream of yesteryear And cradles in our hearts your lonely sorrow Gleams of yesteryear at times rise in our eyes. And the evening falls silent... O infinite sadness, and, the things of Earth! O this povertySolennised in anxious twilight On the fragrant moss and in the naked forestYour eyes have bitter season's slow sweets The sad air has flavors of the year. Along the golden ponds. While it snows noiselessly from the leaves Each of us rediscovers his dream And closes its jealous heart on its mystery...