“Sweeter than apples to children
The green water spurted through my pine-wood hull.”

Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures,
L'eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin.
St. 5
Le Bateau Ivre http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Boat.html (The Drunken Boat) (1871)

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Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures, L'eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin.

Le Bateau Ivre http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Boat.html (The Drunken Boat) (1871)

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