Un grand sommeil noir
Tombe sur ma vie:
Dormez, tout espoir,
Dormez, toute envie!

Je ne vois plus rien.
Je perds la mémoire
Du mal et du bien…
la triste histoire!

Je suis un berceau
Qu’une main balance
Au creux d’un caveau
Silence, silence!

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Paul-Marie Verlaine (; French: [vɛʁlɛn(ə)]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement.

He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.