“What have you done, you standing there
In floods of tears?
Tell me what you have done
With your young life?”

— Paul Verlaine

Qu'as-tu fait, ô toi que voilà
Pleurant sans cesse,
Dis, qu'as-tu fait, toi que voilà
De ta jeunesse?
"Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit", line 13, from Sagesse (1880); Sorrell p. 111

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