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Arthur Rimbaud - Cities Vagabonds
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These are cities! 
And this is the people for whom these 
Alleghenys and Lebanons of dream have been raised! 
Castles of wood and crystal move on tracks and invisible winches. 

Old craters ringed with mammoth statues and 
coppery palms roar melodiously in flames. 
Festivals of love reverberate 
from the canals suspended behind the castles. 

Chimes echo through the gorges like a chase. 
Corporations of giant singers assemble, 
their vestments and oriflames 
brilliant as the mountain-peaks. 

On platforms in the midst of gulfs, 
Rolands brazen their bravuras. 
From abysmal catwalks and the rooftops of inns,
a burning sky hoists flags upon the masts. 

The collapse of apotheosis 
unites the heights to the depths 
where seraphic shecentaurs 
wind among the avalanches. 

Above the plateaus of the highest reaches, 
the sea, troubled by the perpetual birth of Venus 
and loaded with choral fleets amid 
an uproar of pearls and precious conches, 
grows dark at times with mortal thunder. 

On the slopes, 
harvests of flowers 
as big as our weapons 
and goblets are bellowing. 

Processions of Mabs in red-opaline scale the ravines. 
On high, their feet in the waterfalls and briars, 
stags give suck to Diana. 

Bacchantes of the suburbs weep,
and the moon burns and howls. 
Venus enters the caves 
of the black-smiths and hermits. 

Clusters of belfries repeat the ideas of the people. 
Issues from castles of bone an unknown music. 
In the boroughs legends 
are born and enthusiasm germinate. 

A paradise of storms collapses. 
Savages dance without stopping the festival of night. 
And, for one hour, I descended into the swarm 
of a boulevard of Baghdad 
where groups of peple were singing 
the joy of the new work, 
circulating under a heavy wind 
without being able to escape those fabulous phantoms 
of the mountains to which one must return.

What good arms, what wondrous hour 
will restore to me that region 
whence come my slumbers 
and least movements?
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