“Etna! 'tis amid you, visited by Venus
On your lava fields placing her candid feet,
When a sad stillness thunders wherein the flame dies.
I hold the queen!”

—  Stéphane Mallarmé

The Afternoon of a Faun (1876)

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French Symbolist poet 1842–1898

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