The sleeper of the vale - Arthur Rimbaud
It is a hole of greenery where sings a river
Madly clinging to the grass of silvery
Rays; where the sun, from the proud mountain,
Shines: it is a little vale foaming with rays
A young soldier, mouth open, naked head,
And the nape of his neck bathing in the cool blue watercress,
Sleeps; he is laying in the grass, under the skies,
Pale in his green bed where rains down light
Feet in the gladiolus, he sleeps. Smiling like
A sick child would smile, he is taking a nap :
Nature, craddle him warmly: he is cold.
The fragrances do not make his nostrils shiver;
He sleeps in the sun, hand on his chest
At peace. He has two red holes on his right side.
















