The Eyes of the Poor by Charles Pierre Baudelaire

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Ah! you want to know why I hate you to-day It will probably be / less easy for you to understand than for me to explain it to / you; for you are, I think, the most perfect example of feminine / impenetrability that could possibly be found.

We had spent a long day together, and it had seemed to me / short. We had promised one another that we would think the same / thoughts and that our two souls should become one soul; a dream / which is not original, after all, except that, dreamed by all / men, it has been realised by none.

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