{"id":15625,"date":"2025-05-16T22:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rimes.fr\/blog\/?post_type=poemes&p=15625"},"modified":"2025-05-16T22:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:49:47","slug":"vesale","status":"publish","type":"poemes","link":"https:\/\/www.rimes.fr\/blog\/poemes\/vesale\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e9sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c0 Paul Heger.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c0 qui vous regardait baller, de large en long,
\nBaller au vent, sur la montagne des Sablons,
\n\u00c0 qui, de loin, vous regardait,
\nPauvres pendus hagards et contrefaits.
\nAvec des vers blottis au creux de vos aisselles,
\nVotre danse sinistre, \u00e0 reculons,
\nSemblant fr\u00f4ler, du bout de ses talons,
\nClochers, beffrois, tourelles,
\nQue projetait aux deux, du fond de son vallon,
\nBruxelles.
\nMontaient vers vous de lointaines hu\u00e9es,
\nEt le tumulte roux des farouches nu\u00e9es,
\nLoques d\u2019automne et fun\u00e8bres lambeaux ;
\nEt la haine toujours et jamais la cl\u00e9mence,
\nEt les vols tournoyant, en couronnes immenses,
\nDes freux et des corbeaux.<\/p>\n

Vous vous dressiez, l\u00e0-haut, comme des d\u00e9dicaces
\n\u00c0 la reine des Espagnes noires, la mort,
\nEt nul ne se serait enquis de votre sort,
\nNi du morne d\u00e9labrement de vos carcasses,
\nS\u2019il ne s\u2019\u00e9tait trouv\u00e9, dans la ville d\u2019en bas,
\nQuelqu\u2019\u00e9trange cerveau d\u2019homme songeur et las,
\nQui s\u2019en venait scruter, parmi vos pourritures,
\nL\u2019\u00e9nigme encor serr\u00e9e aux joints de vos structures.<\/p>\n

V\u00e9sale \u00e9tait cet homme, et rien, ni la frayeur
\nDont les ailes du soir emplissaient l\u2019\u00e9tendue,
\nNi le rire large ou sournois des fossoyeurs,
\nNi les grappes de vers \u00e0 vos torses pendues,
\nNi vos cr\u00e2nes verdis, ni vos pieds blanchissants,
\nNi vos deux yeux pareils \u00e0 des caillots de sang.
\nRien n\u2019arr\u00eata jamais sa rude patience
\n\u00c0 p\u00e9n\u00e9trer jusques au fond de votre horreur
\nPour en tirer les ors cach\u00e9s de sa science.<\/p>\n

Son regard \u00e9tait net, sa main prompte mais s\u00fbre ;
\nIl enfon\u00e7ait sa torche au trou d\u2019une blessure ;
\nIl diss\u00e9quait, la nuit, sans h\u00e2te et sans erreur.
\nCeux qui passaient sous sa fen\u00eatre ardente
\nIgnoraient tous quelle \u0153uvre f\u00e9condante,
\nGr\u00e2ce \u00e0 lui seul, la Flandre \u00e9laborait,
\nEt quel arbre g\u00e9ant, dans la for\u00eat
\nFarouche et maigre encor des certitudes,
\nTenacement, son effort clair r\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rait.
\nLui seul cherchait ; tous les autres couvaient l\u2019\u00e9tude
\nEn des livres rong\u00e9s par les rats et le temps ;
\nLeur cerveau \u00e9tait clos et leur esprit battant
\nAu tambour creux des rengaines sonores :
\nGallien n\u2019est plus qu\u2019un nom dont Pergame s\u2019honore,
\nJamais il ne scruta les fils ni les r\u00e9seaux
\nQui dans le corps humain relient entre eux les os.
\nL\u2019animal seul le tint pench\u00e9 sur son myst\u00e8re,
\nSi bien que le feu d\u2019or que V\u00e9sale brandit,
\nLarge, puissant, serein, autoritaire,
\nMalgr\u00e9 l\u2019\u00e2pre menace et l\u2019inepte interdit,
\nSe nourrissait d\u2019ardeur immanente et nouvelle,
\nEt jaillissait et bondissait,
\nUniquement,
\nDu merveilleux embrasement
\nDe sa cervelle.<\/p>\n

Ainsi s\u2019inaugura le savoir net et clair.
\nL\u2019homme ne bougeait plus en sa maison de chair
\nQu\u2019on ne v\u00eet se mouvoir les n\u0153uds et les jointures
\nSouples de sa flexible et forte architecture.
\nLe squelette qui d\u00e9cha\u00eenait le branle-bas
\n\u2014 Heurts, chocs, danses et sauts \u2014 des grotesques sabbats
\nFut instaur\u00e9, splendide et blanc, dans la lumi\u00e8re ;
\nNul ne le rabaissait \u00e0 sa hideur premi\u00e8re.
\nL\u2019art, qui l\u2019\u00e9tudiait en sa complexit\u00e9,
\nExprima tout \u00e0 coup son occulte beaut\u00e9
\nEn des marbres marchant, sous de grands cieux en flammes ;
\nEt le grand Florentin, Michel-Ange, sombre \u00e2me,
\nN\u2019aurait certes tordu, entre ses vastes mains,
\nAvec un tel exc\u00e8s tout le tumulte humain,
\nRu\u00e9 en bonds et vols et meutes colossales,
\nS\u2019il n\u2019avait eu d\u2019abord, pour \u00e9claireur, V\u00e9sale.
\n\u00d4 le vent rude et sain des pensers \u00e9nergiques
\nQui secouait alors les branches du destin !
\n\u00d4 la neuve clart\u00e9 du jour \u00e0 son matin !
\nV\u00e9sale en prodiguait au loin, de ville en ville,
\nLes feux, \u00e0 des cerveaux timides et serviles.
\nIl \u00e9tait gu\u00e9risseur de peuples et de rois ;
\nSa gloire ample montait pareil \u00e0 un charroi
\nDe fleurs et de moissons sur de hautes montagnes ;
\nIl enfi\u00e9vrait la France, il \u00e9tonnait l\u2019Espagne ;
\nSa m\u00e9thode s\u2019affermissait comme un donjon
\nMassif et droit, dans un pays de lourde brume.
\nIl ne frappait jamais \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de l\u2019enclume ;
\nIl ne s\u2019appuyait point sur un peuple de joncs.
\nLes yeux pouvaient saisir ce qu\u2019il affirmait : \u00eatre ;
\nAucun faux jour ne glissait par sa fen\u00eatre.
\nBologne le conquit \u00e0 son enseignement
\nMultiple et clair \u2014 tels les astres au firmament. \u2014
\nEt quand plus tard, en la m\u00eame Italie,
\nEn les villes de France et d\u2019Espagne, s\u2019en vint,
\nComme un charmeur, comme un devin,
\nPareil \u00e0 quelque fra\u00eeche et soudaine embellie,
\nTriomphal et princier, h\u00e9ro\u00efque et gourmand,
\nRubens ! il conduisit son art, de joute en joute,
\nPar les m\u00eames chemins et les m\u00eames grand\u2019routes
\nQu\u2019avaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 sacr\u00e9s le haut savoir flamand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center 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