English - Invitation to a Journey

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An Invitation to a Journey by Charles Baudelaire, translated into
English by Cyril Scott, read for Librivlocks dot org by Caviness.
Invitation to a journey, My sister, my dear, Consider how
fair together to live? It would be down yonder to fly,

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to love till we die. In the land which resembles
thee those suns that rise neath erratic skies, no charm
could be like unto theirs, so strange and divine, like
those eyes of thine which glow in the midst of
their tears. There all is order and loveliness, luxury, calm,

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and voluptuousness. The tables and chairs, polished bright by the years,
would decorate sweetly our rooms, and the rarest of flowers
would twine round our bowers and mingle their amber perfumes.
The ceilings arrayed in the mirrors inlaid this Eastern splendor

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among would furtivelly steal o'er our souls and appeal with
its tranquilitous native tongue. There all is orter and loveliness, luxury, calm,
and voluptuousness. In the harbors, peeps are the vessels asleep.
Their humor is always to rome Yet it is but

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to grant thy smallest want from the ends of the earth,
that they come the sunset's beam upon meadow and stream,
and upon the city entire. Neath a violet crest, the
world sings to rest illumined by a golden fire. There
all is orter and loveliness, luxury, common voluptuousness. End of poem.

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