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Isolement, À Gérard, poète.

Apparently we’re talking about Rhapsodies with the HoR read now?? Here, let me post up the poems for the other people  who’ve appeared in it so far:D

This one was for Gerard de Nerval (all the poems are not just dedicated to, but directly written for, one or the other of the crew). It’s long (brevity is never one of Borel’s strong points...) so mostly under the cut, along with some commentary: 

Les grand’s forêts renouvelées La solitude des vallées Clôses d’effroy tout à l’entour ! Ronsard

Sous le soleil torride au beau pays créole, Où l’Africain se courbe au bambou de l’Anglais, Encontre l’ouragan, le palmier qui s’étiole Aux bras d’une liane unit son bois épais. En nos antiques bois, le gui, saint parasite, Au giron d’une yeuse et s’assied et s’endort ; Mêlant sa fragile herbe, et subissant le sort Du tronc religieux qui des autans l’abrite.

Gui ! liane ! palmier ! mon âme vous envie ! Mon cœur voudrait un lierre et s’enlacer à lui. Pour passer mollement le gué de cette vie, Je demande une femme, une amie, un appui ! — Un ange d’ici-bas ?… une fleur, une femme ?… Barde, viens, et choisis dans ce folâtre essaim Tournoyant au rondeau d’un preste clavecin. — Non ; mon cœur veut un cœur qui comprenne son âme. Ce n’est point au théâtre, aux fêtes, qu’est la fille Qui pourrait sur ma vie épancher le bonheur : C’est aux champs, vers le soir, groupée en sa mantille, Un Werther à la main sous le saule pleureur. Ce n’est point une brune aux cils noirs, l’air moresque ; C’est un cygne indolent ; une Ondine aux yeux bleus Aussi grands qu’une amande, et mourants, soucieux ; Ainsi qu’en réfléchit le rivage tudesque. Quand viendra cette fée ? — En vain ma voix l’appelle ! — Apporter ses printemps à mon cœur isolé. Pourtant jusqu’aux cyprès je lui serais fidèle ! Sur la plage toujours resterai-je esseulé ? Sur mon toit le moineau dort avec sa compagne ;

Ma cavale au coursier a donné ses amours. Seul, moi, dans cet esquif, que nul être accompagne, Sur le torrent fougueux je vois passer mes jours.

I’m not going to translate this whole thing, not because it’s super tricky--for Petrus, this is exceptionally clear and straightforward French!-- but because it is long and I’m pretty sure everyone interested is at least as competent with French as me! 

But I do want to point out that unusually (for Petrus) straightforward and direct language, and the repeated motifs of nature spirits and German myth; this is all very much Gerard’s focus , of course! So is the mood, which is even more noticeable if you read more of Rapsodies;  this is a very gentle, melancholy kind of poem, and most of Borel’s stuff is a lot (a LOT)  more gleefully Goth/Frenetic. There’s...there’s usually a lot more dead bodies than this XD . So yeah, this is on every level very much a Gérard Poem!  

And interestingly, around this time, Gérard was writing some exceptionally (for him) morbid gore-crow Goth stuff, with shambling undead and angry political commentary (...which Petrus still couldn’t keep out of this entirely, see : “where the African bends over the English bamboo” ) . Petrus quoted some of it later in Champavert, which I’ve seen a couple people comment on, generally with a kind of bafflement over the sudden departure from style on Gerard’s part. To me it looks like maybe they were having fun  sort of trying each others’ glasses on , poetic-style wise--it’s the kind of collaborative game that was very typical for this group.

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Dedication section from Rapsodies

Translators: Joseph Carter, Olchar Lindsann The whole translation is online free here, and should really be checked out, if only for the footnotes!  Sharing this bit because Gautier references it in History of Romanticism, specifically the bit about Joseph Bouchardy :

Assuredly, the bourgeoisie will not be at all alarmed by the names dedicated that it will meet in this volume; simply, they are all young folk, like me; of heart and of courage, with whom I grew, how I love them all! It is they who make disappear for me the platitude of this life; they are all frank friends , all comrades of our camaraderie, tight camaraderie, not that of Mr. Henri Delatouche: ours he would never understand at all.  Feared I not having an air of paragoning our small names to those larger, I would say that ours, ours is that of the Titien and of the Arioste, that of Molière and of Mignard.  It is to you above all, companions, that I give this book! It was made among you, you may claim authorship. It is to you, Jehan Duseigneur, the sculptor, beautiful and good of heart, secure and courageous work, nevertheless ingenuous as a girl. Courage! your place would be beautiful: France for the frst time would have a French statuary.—To you, Napoléon Thom, the painter, air, frankness, soldierly handshake. Courage! you are in an atmosphere of genius. —To you, good Gérard:  when then, the customs officers of literature, will they let arrive to the public committee the works, so well received from their small committees. — To you, Vigneron, who have my deep friendship, you, who prove to the coward that which can be done by perseverance; if you have carried the mortarboard, Jamerai Duval has been the drover. — To you, Joseph Bouchardy, the engraver, heart of saltpetre! — To you, Théophile Gautier. — To you, Alphonse Brot! — To you, Augustus Mac-keat! — To you, Vabre! to you, Léon! to you, O'Neddy, etc.; to you all! who I love.    

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