THE PASSIONS

by: Maurice Maeterlinck

ARROW paths my passions tread:

Laughter rings there, sorrow cries;

Sick and sad, with half-shut eyes,

Thro' the leaves the woods have shed,

 

My sins like yellow mongrels slink;

Uncouth hyenas, my hates complain,

And on the pale and listless plain

Couching low, love's lion's blink.

 

Powerless, deep in a dream of peace,

Sunk in a languid spell they lie,

Under a colourless, desolate sky,

There they gaze and never cease,

 

Where like sheep temptations graze,

One by one departing slow:

In the moon's unchanging glow

My unchanging passions gaze.

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