No More Learning

Sois donc le crieur du devoir,
O notre funebre oiseau noir!

Mais, saints du ciel, en haut du chene,
Mat perdu dans le soir charme,
Laissez les fauvettes de mai
Pour ceux qu'au fond du bois enchaine,
Dans l'herbe d'ou l'on ne peut fuir,
La defaite sans avenir.

1872.




PATIENCE


_D'un ete. _

Aux branches claires des tilleurs
Meurt un maladif hallali.
Mais des chansons spirituelles
Voltigent partout les groseilles.
Que notre sang rie en nos veines,
Voici s'enchevetrer les vignes.
Le ciel est joli comme un ange,
Azur et Onde communient.
Je sors! Si un rayon me blesse,
Je succomberai sur la mousse.

Qu'on patiente et qu'on s'ennuie,
C'est si simple! . . . Fi de ces peines!
Je veux que l'ete dramatique
Me lie a son char de fortune.
Que par toi beaucoup, o Nature,
--Ah! moins nul et moins seul! je meure,
Au lieu que les bergers, c'est drole,
Meurent a peu pres par le monde.

Je veux bien que les saisons m'usent.
A toi, Nature! je me rends,
Et ma faim et toute ma soif;
Et s'il te plait, nourris, abreuve.
Rien de rien ne m'illusionne;
C'est rire aux parents qu'au soleil;
Mais moi je ne veux rire a rien,
Et libre soit cette infortune.




JEUNE MENAGE


La chambre est ouverte au ciel bleu turquin;
Pas de place: des coffrets et des huches!
Dehors le mur est plein d'aristoloches
Ou vibrent les gencives des lutins.

Que ce sont bien intrigues de genies
Cette depense et ces desordres vains!
C'est la fee africaine qui fournit
La mure, et les resilles dans les coins.

Plusieurs entrent, marraines mecontentes,
En pans de lumiere dans les buffets,
Puis y restent! le menage s'absente
Peu serieusement, et rien ne se fait.

Le marie a le vent qui le floue
Pendant son absence, ici, tout le temps.
Meme des esprits des eaux malfaisants
Entrent vaguer aux spheres de l'alcove.

La nuit, l'amie oh, la lune de miel
Cueillera leur sourire et remplira
De mille bandeaux de cuivre le ciel.
Puis ils auront affaire au malin rat.

--S'il n'arrive pas un feu follet bleme,
Comme un coup de fusil, apres des vepres.
--O spectres saints et blancs de Bethleem,
Charmez plutot le bleu de leur fenetre!

27 juin 1872.




MEMOIRE


I

L'eau claire; comme le sel des larmes d'enfance;
L'assaut au soleil des blancheurs des corps de femmes;
La soie, en foule et de lys pur des oriflammes
Sous les murs dont quelque pucelle eut la defense;

L'ebat des anges;--non. . . le courant d'or en marche,
Meut ses bras, noirs, et lourds, et frais surtout, d'herbe. Elle,
Sombre, ayant le ciel bleu pour ciel de lit, appelle
Pour rideaux l'ombre de la colline et de l'arche.


II

Eh! l'humide carreau tend ses bouillons limpides!
L'eau meuble d'or pale et sans fond les couches pretes.
Les robes vertes et deteintes des fillettes
Font les saules, d'ou sautent les oiseaux sans brides.

Plus pure qu'un louis, jaune et chaude paupiere
Le souci d'eau--ta foi conjugale, o l'Epouse! --
Au midi prompt, de son terne miroir, jalouse
Au ciel gris de chaleur la sphere rose et chere.


III

Madame se tient trop debout dans la prairie
Prochaine ou neigent les fils du travail; l'ombrelle
Aux doigts; foulant l'ombelle; trop fiere pour elle
Des enfants lisant dans la verdure fleurie

Leur livre de maroquin rouge! Helas, Lui, comme
Mille anges blancs qui se separent sur la route,
S'eloigne par dela la montagne! Elle, toute
Froide, et noire, court! apres le depart de l'homme!


IV

Regrets des bras epais et jeunes d'herbe pure!
Or des lunes d'avril au coeur du saint lit! Joie
Des chantiers riverains a l'abandon, en proie
Aux soirs d'aout qui faisaient germer ces pourritures!

Qu'elle pleure a present sous les remparts: l'haleine
Des peupliers d'en haut est pour la seule brise.
Amis, c'est la nappe, sans reflets, sans source, grise--
Un vieux dragueur, dans sa barque immobile, peine.


V

Jouet de cet oeil d'eau morne, je n'y puis prendre,
O canot immobile! o bras trop courts! ni l'une
Ni l'autre fleur; ni la jaune qui m'importune,
La; ni la bleue, amis, a l'eau couleur de cendre.

Ah! la poudre des saules qu'une aile secoue!
Les roses des roseaux des longtemps devorees! . . .
Mon canot toujours fixe; et sa chaine tiree
Au fond de cet oeil d'eau sans bords--a quelle boue?




Est-elle almee? . . . aux premieres heures bleues
Se detruira-t-elle comme les fleurs feues. . .
Devant la splendide etendue ou l'on sente
Souffler la ville enormement florissante!

C'est trop beau! c'est trop beau! mais c'est necessaire
--Pour la Pecheuse et la chanson du corsaire,
Et aussi puisque les derniers masques crurent
Encore aux fetes de nuit sur la mer pure!

Juillet 1872




FETES DE LA FAIM


Ma faim, Anne, Anne,
Fuis sur ton ane.

Si j'ai du gout, ce n'est gueres
Que pour la terre et les pierres
Dinn! dinn! dinn! dinn! Mangeons l'air,
Le roc, les terres, le fer,
Charbons.

Mes faims, tournez. Paissez, faims,
Le pre des sons!
Attirez le gai venin
Des liserons;

Mangez les cailloux qu'un pauvre brise,
Les vieilles pierres d'eglises,
Les galets, fils des deluges,
Pains couches aux vallees grises!

Des faims, c'est les bouts d'air noir;
L'azur sonneur;
--C'est l'estomac qui me tire,
C'est le malheur.

Sur terre ont paru les feuilles:
Je vais aux chairs de fruit blettes,
Au sein du sillon je cueille
La doucette et la violette.

Ma faim, Anne, Anne!
Fuis sur ton ane.

Aout 1872.




PROSE




I

FLAIRY


Pour Helene se conjurerent les seves ornementales dans les ombres
vierges et les clartes impassibles dans le silence astral. L'ardeur de
l'ete fut confiee a des oiseaux muets et l'indolence requise a une
barque de deuils sans prix par des anses d'amours morts et de parfums
affaisses.

Apres le moment de l'air des bucheronnes a la rumeur du torrent sous la
ruine des bois, de la sonnerie des bestiaux a l'echo des vals, et des
cris des steppes.

Pour l'enfance d'Helene frissonnerent les fourres et les ombres, et le
sein des pauvres, et les legendes du ciel.

Et ses yeux et sa danse superieurs encore aux eclats precieux, aux
influences froides, au plaisir du decor et de l'heure uniques.




II

GUERRE


Enfant, certains ciels ont affine mon optique, tous les caracteres
nuancerent ma physionomie. Les phenomenes s'emurent. A present
l'inflexion eternelle des moments de l'infini des mathematiques me
chassent par ce monde ou je subis tous les succes civils, respecte de
l'enfance etrange et des affections enormes. Je songe a une guerre, de
droit ou de force, de logique bien imprevue.

C'est aussi simple qu'une phrase musicale.




III

GENIE


Il est l'affection et le present puisqu'il a fait la maison ouverte a
l'hiver ecumeux et a la rumeur de l'ete, lui qui a purifie les boissons
et les aliments, lui qui est le charme des lieux fuyant et le delice
surhumain des stations. Il est l'affection et l'avenir, la force et
l'amour que nous, debout dans les rages et les ennuis, nous voyons
passer dans le ciel de tempete et les drapeaux d'extase.

Il est l'amour, mesure parfaite et reinventee, raison merveilleuse et
imprevue, et l'eternite: machine aimee des qualites fatales. Nous avons
tous eu l'epouvante de sa concession et de la notre: o jouissance de
notre sante, elan de nos facultes, affection egoiste et passion pour
lui, lui qui nous aime pour sa vie infinie. . .

Et nous nous le rappelons et il voyage. . . Et si l'Adoration s'en va,
sonne, sa promesse sonne: <<Arriere ces superstitions, ces anciens corps,
ces menages et ces ages. C'est cette epoque-ci qui a sombre! >>

Il ne s'en ira pas, il ne redescendra pas d'un ciel, il n'accomplira pas
la redemption des coleres de femmes et des gaites des hommes et de tout
ce peche: car c'est fait, lui etant, et etant aime.

O ses souffles, ses tetes, ses courses; la terrible celerite de la
perfection des formes et de l'action.

O fecondite de l'esprit et immensite de l'univers!

Son corps! Le degagement reve le brisement de la grace croisee de
violence nouvelle! sa vue, sa vue! tous les agenouillages anciens et les
peines _releves_ a sa suite.

Son jour! l'abolition de toutes souffrances sonores et mouvantes dans la
musique plus intense.

Son pas! les migrations plus enormes que les anciennes invasions.

O Lui et nous! l'orgueil plus bienveillant que les charites perdues.

O monde! et le chant clair des malheurs nouveaux!

Il nous a connus tous et nous a tous tous aime. Sachons, cette nuit
d'hiver, de cap en cap, du pole tumultueux au chateau, de la foule a la
plage, de regards en regards, forces et sentiments las, le heler et le
voir, et le renvoyer, et sous les marees et au haut des deserts de
neige, suivre ses vues, ses souffles, son corps, son jour.




IV

JEUNESSE


I

DIMANCHE

Les calculs de cote, l'inevitable descente du ciel, la visite des
souvenirs et la seance des rythmes occupent la demeure, la tete et le
monde de l'esprit.

--Un cheval detale sur le turf suburbain, le long des cultures et des
boisements, perce par la peste carbonique. Une miserable femme de drame,
quelque part dans le monde soupire apres les abandons improbables. Les
desperadves languissent apres l'orage, l'ivresse et les blessures. De
petits enfants etouffent des maledictions le long des rivieres.

Reprenons l'etude au bruit de l'oeuvre devorante qui se rassemble et se
monte dans les masses.


II

SONNET

_Homme_ de constitution ordinaire, la chair n'etait-elle pas un fruit
pendu dans le verger, o journees enfantes! le corps un tresor a
prodiguer; o aimer, le peril ou la force de Psyche? La terre avait des
versants fertiles en princes et en artistes, et la descendance et la
race nous poussaient aux crimes et aux deuils: ce monde votre fortune et
votre peril. Mais a present, le labeur comble, toi, tes calculs, toi,
tes impatiences, ne sont plus que votre danse et votre voix, non fixees
et point forcees, quoique d'un double evenement d'invention et de succes
une liaison, en l'humanite fraternelle est discrete par l'univers sans
images;--la force et le droit reflechissent la danse et la voix a
present seulement appreciees.


III

VINGT ANS

Les voix instructives exilees. . . L'ingenuite physique amerement
rassise. . . Adagio. Ah! l'egoisme infini de l'adolescence, l'optimisme
studieux: que le monde etait plein de fleurs cet ete! Les airs et les
formes mourant. . . Un choeur, pour calmer l'impuissance et l'absence! Un
choeur de verres de melodies nocturnes. . . En effet les nerfs vont vite
chasser.


IV

Tu en es encore a la tentation d'Antoine. L'ebat du zele ecourte, les
tics d'orgueil, l'affaissement et l'effroi. Mais tu te mettras a ce
travail: toutes les possibilites harmoniques et architecturales
s'emouvront autour de ton siege. Des etres parfaits, imprevus,
s'offriront a tes experiences. Dans tes environs affluera reveusement la
curiosite d'anciennes foules et de luxes oisifs. Ta memoire et tes sens
ne seront que la nourriture de ton impulsion creatrice. Quant au monde,
quand tu sortiras, que sera-t-il devenu? En tout cas, rien des
apparences actuelles.




V

SOLDES


A vendre ce que les Juifs n'ont pas vendus, ce que noblesse ni crime
n'ont goute, ce qu'ignorent l'amour maudit et la probite infernale des
masses; ce que le temps ni la science n'ont pas a reconnaitre:

Les voix reconstituees; l'eveil fraternel de toutes les energies
chorales et orchestrales, et leurs applications instantanees,
l'occasion, unique, de degager nos sens!

A vendre les corps sans prix, hors de toute race, de tout monde, de tout
sexe, de toute descendance! Les richesses jaillissant a chaque demarche!
Solde de diamants sans controle!

A vendre l'anarchie pour les masses; la satisfaction irrepressible pour
les amateurs superieurs; la mort atroce pour les fideles et les amants!

A vendre les habitations et les migrations, sports, feeries et conforts
parfaits, et le bruit, le mouvement et l'avenir qu'ils font:

A vendre les applications de calcul et sauts d'harmonie inouis. Les
trouvailles et les termes non soupconnes, possession immediate.

Elan insense et infini aux splendeurs et invisibles aux delices
insensibles, et ses secrets affolants pour chaque vice, et sa gaite
effroyante pour la foule.

A vendre les corps, les voix, l'immense opulence inquestionable, ce
qu'on ne vendra jamais. Les vendeurs ne sont pas a bout de solde! Les
voyageurs n'ont pas a rendre leur commission de sitot!




TABLE


PREFACE
Les etrennes des orphelins
Voyelles
Oraison du soir
Les assis
Les effares
Les chercheuses de poux
Bateau ivre
Premieres communions
L'orgie parisienne ou Paris se repeuple
Accroupissements
Les pauvres a l'eglise
Ce qui retient Nina
Venus Anadyomene
Morts de quatre-vingt-douze
Comedie en trois baisers
Sensation
Bal des pendus
Roman
Rages de Cesars
Le mal
Ophelie
Le chatiment de Tartufe
A la musique
Le forgeron
Soleil et chair
Le dormeur du Val
Au Cabaret Vert
La Maline
L'eclatante victoire de Sarrebruck
Reve pour l'hiver
Le buffet
Ma boheme
Entends comme Brame
Chant de guerre parisien
Mes petites amoureuses
Les poetes de sept ans
Le coeur vole
Tete de faune
Poison perdu
Les corbeaux
Patience
Jeune menage
Memoire
. . . Est-elle almee?
Fetes de la faim (variante)

PROSE

Fairy
Guerre
Genie
Jeunesse
I. Dimanche
II. Sonnet
III. Vingt ans
IV. Tu en es encore
Solde



[Notes sur la transcription:

On a effectue les corrections suivantes:

ombrage ombre (On paie au Pretre un toit ombrage d'une charmille)
retire <<petits>> (De s'entendre appeler garces par les petits garcons)
retire <<fortes>> (Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou s'exalte et s'abaisse)
Boete Poete (Le Boete prendra le sanglot des Infames)
gravements gravement (Et parfois en hoquets fort gravements bouffons)
ajoute <<est Roi! >> (--Et pourtant, plus de dieux! plus de dieux! l'Homme)
dlamants diamants (Solde de dlamants sans controle! )]







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