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A respectable citizen’s son— above all else, a beauteous

youth who belongs to the theatre, agreeable in so many ways:

I now and then compose, in the language of the Greeks,

exceedingly daring verses, which I circulate

very secretly, of course— gods! they mustn’t be seen

by those who prate about morals, those who wear gray clothes—

verses about a pleasure that is select, that moves

toward a barren love of which the world disapproves.

[1923?; 1923]