"A cote de Venus et du fils de Latone
Peindre la fee et la peri."


The longest poem in the book, and the most serious, "La Voie
Lactee," reminds one of the "Palace of Art," written before the
after-thought, before the "white-eyed corpses" were found lurking in
corners. Beginning with Homer, "the Ionian father of the rest," -


"Ce dieu, pere des dieux qu'adore Ionie," -


the poet glorifies all the chief names of song. There is a long
procession of illustrious shadows before Shakespeare comes--
Shakespeare, whose genius includes them all.


"Toute creation e laquelle on aspire,
Tout reve, toute chose, emanent de Shakespeare."


His mind has lent colour to the flowers and the sky, to


"La fleur qui brode un point sur les manteau des plaines,
Les nenuphars penches, et les pales roseaux
Qui disent leur chant sombre au murmure des eaux."