“I have embraced the summer dawn.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été. <br class="br"> Illuminations. Aube http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Dawn.html (Dawn) (1874) <br class="br">Variant translation: I have kissed the summer dawn.

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