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La tormenta te ha hecho poesía suprema;el inmenso bullicio de las fuerzas te alienta;tu obra hierve, la muerte ruge, ¡Ciudad ungida!Amontona estridencias en lo hondo del clarín

El Poeta hará suyo el llanto del Infame,el odio del Forzado, el clamor del Maldito;y sus rayos de amor flagelarán las Hembras.Su estrofa brincará: ¡Mirad, mirad, bandidos!Sociedad, todo ha vuelto a su sitio: la orgíallora su estertor viejo en el viejo prostíbulo;y el gas, en su delirio, por las murallas rojas,arde siniestramente hacia el pálido azul.

—Arthur Rimbaud

(English version)

The tempest sealed you in supreme poetry;The huge stirring of strength comes to your aid;Your work comes to the boil, death groans, O chosen City!Hoard in your heart the stridors of the ominous trumpet.

The Poet will take the sobs of the Infamous,The hate of the Galley slaves, the clamour of the Damned;And the beams of his love will scourge Womankind.His verses will leap out: There's for you! There! Villains!

- Society, and everything, is restored: - the orgiesAre weeping with dry sobs in the old brothels:And on the reddened walls, the gaslights in frenzy,Flare balefully upwards to the wan blue skies!

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Anthony L

Vivid, alarming, sweeping from view to view - a young mind dazzled by its own strength of imagination, neatly blinded or deaf. Is there revulsion, or despair, or what at the end?