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Autograph poem entitled The Words of a Cursed Man dedicated to Charles Delacour. It was written in March 1883 and appeared in the collection The black muse :

I

If it is true, O mighty God, O you whom I worshipped,
In heaven, where your silent indolence sleeps,
You let yourself be lulled by the sigh that rises up
Of my sickly body and my grieving heart;

O impassive old sphinx, O abhorred old judge,
A scrupulous weigher with false scales,
Save me with a word - and keep silent.
I, putrescible atom, will insult you!

Before rolling into eternal shadow
Where my flesh must roast in the great dark brazier,
With fists clenched in the sky, I'll shout three times:

- Monster, be anathema! - And my sublime Rancour
Will rise, married to the thunder of my voice.
Like an incense of hatred exhaled from my crime!

II

As for you, Lucifer, fallen star of heaven.
Intelligent splendour thrown into darkness,
Angel who carries your untamed anger high.
And swell all the breasts with seditious cries; .

Through you alone, I have known forgetful contempt
Of the Lord, and of his hated power;
I felt - sceptical and mocking, almost atheistic
The unheard-of pleasures of radiant love!

You opened up the ocean of deep pleasure for me
Whose delirious waves no one has been able to stop.
You taught me to taste the charms of Hell.

It's true that you suffer, but you enjoy it all the same,
Since you can drool your bile there. - O Lucifer,
My executioner of tomorrow, I honour you - I love you!

Stanislas de Guaïta
"The Black Muse

Manuscripts by Stanislas de Guaïta are rare.