How many betrayers!
Night.
White Eve silently freed herself and awakened me
Harsh beginning of a muffled symphony
But it seemed to me, the city
Disappeared when the sea shuddered in swift flight like Niagara Falls
In a grand—in a grand curtain of diamonds spread on the twilight
Diamonds by the thousands in a grand living curtain
It was a deep night
Dazzling and immense
The frenetic—the crazy—spring up from the soil
Like mushrooms after a rain
And to this comic stage roars
The solemn toads and the tender frogs
Enraptured
The heart
A strange little gypsy
Do you love perfume?
No—you are afraid of perfume …
How many betrayers! Night. White Eve silently freed herself and awakened me Harsh beginning of a muffled symphony But it seemed to me, the city Disappeared when the sea shuddered in swift flight like Niagara Falls In a grand—in a grand curtain of diamonds spread on the twilight Diamonds by the thousands in a grand living curtain It was a deep night Dazzling and immense The frenetic—the crazy—spring up from the soil Like mushrooms after a rain And to this comic stage roars The solemn toads and the tender frogs Enraptured
The heart A strange little gypsy Do you love perfume? No—you are afraid of perfume …
[paraphrased]