H\u00e9las ! je n\u2019\u00e9tais pas fait pour cette haine
\nEt pour ce m\u00e9pris plus forts que moi que j\u2019ai.
\nMais pourquoi m\u2019avoir fait cet agneau sans laine
\nEt pourquoi m\u2019avoir fait ce c\u0153ur outrag\u00e9 ?<\/p>\n
J\u2019\u00e9tais n\u00e9 pour plaire \u00e0 toute \u00e2me un peu fi\u00e8re,
\nSorte d\u2019homme en r\u00eave et capable du mieux,
\nParfois tout sourire et parfois tout pri\u00e8re,
\nEt toujours des cieux attendris dans les yeux ;<\/p>\n
Toujours la bont\u00e9 des caresses sinc\u00e8res,
\nEn d\u00e9pit de tout et quoi qu\u2019il y par\u00fbt,
\nToujours la pudeur des hontes n\u00e9cessaires
\nDans l\u2019argent brutal et les stupeurs du rut ;<\/p>\n
Toujours le pardon, toujours le sacrifice !
\nJ\u2019eus plus d\u2019un des torts, mais j\u2019avais tous les soins.
\nVotre m\u00e8re \u00e9tait tendrement ma complice,
\nQui voyait mes torts et mes soins, elle, au moins.<\/p>\n
Elle n\u2019aimait pas que par vous je souffrisse.
\nElle est morte et j\u2019ai pri\u00e9 sur son tombeau ;
\nMais je doute fort qu\u2019elle approuve et b\u00e9nisse
\nLa chose actuelle et trouve cela beau.<\/p>\n
Et j\u2019ai peur aussi, nous en terre, de croire
\nQue le pauvre enfant, votre fils et le mien,
\nNe v\u00e9n\u00e9rera pas trop votre m\u00e9moire,
\n\u00d4 vous sans \u00e9gard pour le mien et le tien.<\/p>\n
Je n\u2019\u00e9tais pas fait pour dire de ces choses,
\nMoi dont la parole exhalait autrefois
\nUn \u00e9pithalame en des apoth\u00e9oses,
\nCe chant du matin o\u00f9 mentait votre voix.<\/p>\n
J\u2019\u00e9tais, je suis n\u00e9 pour plaire aux nobles \u00e2mes,
\nPour les consoler un peu d\u2019un monde impur,
\nCimier d\u2019or chanteur et tunique de flammes,
\nMoi le Chevalier qui saigne sur azur,<\/p>\n
Moi qui dois mourir d\u2019une mort douce et chaste
\nDont le cygne et l\u2019aigle encor seront jaloux,
\nDans l\u2019honneur vainqueur malgr\u00e9 ce vous n\u00e9faste,
\nDans la gloire aussi des Illustres \u00c9poux !<\/p>\n
Novembre 1886.<\/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 center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"annee":[252],"poems-book":[251],"poemes-theme":[339,360,330],"poete":[240],"class_list":["post-2847","poemes","type-poemes","status-publish","hentry","annee-252","poems-book-amour","poemes-theme-adieu","poemes-theme-haine","poemes-theme-mort","poete-paul-verlaine"],"yoast_head":"\n