Versos English Charles Baudelaire The Other

English poem

The Other

by (1821–1867)

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Ignorance, then, was all your fault and filmèd eyes that could not know, That half discerned and never learned the temporal way that men must go; You set the image of the world high for your heart's idolatry, Though with your lips you called the world a toy, a ghost, a passing show.