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- Alchemy of Suffering
Nature glows with this man's joy,
dims with another's grief;
what signifies the grave to one
is glory to the next.
Trismegistus intercedes:
this ever-daunting guide
makes me a Midas in reverse,
saddest of all alchemists--
gold turns iron at my touch,
heaven darkens to hell;
clouds become a winding-sheet
to shroud my cherished dead,
and on celestial shores I build
enormous sepulchres.
~ Charles Baudelaire
- Alchemy of Suffering