[Bought with the proceeds of Readings of "Les Châtiments" during the Siege of Paris.]
[1872.]
Thou deadly crater, moulded by my muse,
Cast thou thy bronze into my bowed and wounded heart,
And let my soul its vengeance to thy bronze impart!
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