e le givre,
A travers l'air translucide et glace.
De clairs metaux pulverises
A l'infini, semblent neiger
De la paleur d'une lune de cuivre.
Tout est scintillement dans l'immobilite.

Et c'est l'heure divine, ou l'esprit est hante
Par ces mille regards que projette sur terre,
Vers les hasards de l'humaine misere,
La bonne et pure et inchangeable eternite.

S'il arrive jamais
Que nous soyons, sans le savoir,
Souffrance ou peine ou desespoir,
L'un pour l'autre; s'il se faisait
Que la fatigue ou le banal plaisir
Detendissent en nous l'arc d'or du haut desir;
Si le cristal de la pure pensee
De notre amour doit se briser,

Si malgre tout, je me sentais
Vaincu pour n'avoir pas ete
Assez en proie a la divine immensite
De la bonte;
Alors, oh! serrons-nous comme deux fous sublimes
Qui sous les cieux casses, se cramponnent aux cimes
Quand meme.--Et d'un unique essor
L'ame en soleil, s'exaltent dans la mort.

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