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Preface by Petrus Borel
Prologue
Benoni, lament for my brother
The Olden Captain
A timely corrective
The Worker’s Holiday
The Meeting-Place
A Picture of Iseult
Despair
Whimsy
Corsica
Thoughts and Pain
Victory
The Solitary
The Baron’s Daughter
The Ramparts
Daydreams
The Adventurer
Song to the Sun
Happiness and No
A Little Ode
At the Window
On the Jury’s Rejection of the Painting
‘The Bailiff ’s Death’
For Jules Vabre, architect
Agatha: a Fragment
Villanelles
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