The Tomb of Edgar Poe
The Tomb of Edgar Poe by Stéphane Mallarmé Such as into Himself at last eternity changes him, the Poet with a naked sword provokes his century appalled to not have known death triumphed in that strange voice! They, like an upstart hydra hearing the angel once purify the meaning of tribal words proclaimed out loud the prophecy drunk without honour in the tide of some black mixture. From soil and hostile cloud, what strife! if our idea fails to sculpt a bas-relief to ornament the dazzling tomb of Poe, calm block fallen down here from an unseen disaster, let this granite at least set for all time a limit to the black flights of Blasphemy scattered in the future.