The deafening street around me brawled 
Tall, slender, veiled, majestic sadness 
A woman passed, with fastidious hand 
Raising, balancing flounce and hem 

Graceful and noble, with a leg like a statue's 
Me, I drank in, frozen like a spastic 
From her eye, livid heaven where storms are born 
The softness that entrances and the pleasure that kills 

Lightning -- then night Fugitive beauty 
The sight of whom has me suddenly reborn 
Will I ever see you again in all eternity? 

Indeed, very far from here -- too late -- never perhaps 
Since neither of us knows where the other will go 
O you whom I could have loved O you who knew it
 
 

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