

A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels,

I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins:

A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies

which buzz around cruel smells,





Gulfs of shadow; E , whiteness of vapours and of tents,

lances of proud glaciers, white kings, shivers of cow-parsley;

I , purples, spat blood, smile of beautiful lips

in anger or in the raptures of penitence;





U , waves, divine shudderings of viridian seas,

the peace of pastures dotted with animals, the peace of the furrows

which alchemy prints on broad studious foreheads;





O , sublime Trumpet full of strange piercing sounds,

silences crossed by [Worlds and by Angels]: