Fans

I

 

To Mlle. G.M.

 

Formerly astir you ran

Along with unicorn or fays,

Ancient wing unto me grant

The horizon in a breeze.

 

 

II

 

To Mme. Gravollet

 

Beat,

          Wing,

                     but do not deaden

That her voice save brilliantly

To bring it back upon her head

And her breast

                         diamondly.

 

Stéphane Mallarmé