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VERLAINE Paul (1844 - 1896)

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VERLAINE Paul (1844 - 1896)
Autograph poem signed "Paul Verlaine", Chanson pour boire, [1893]| 1 page in-8.
Poem dedicated to his publisher "to Léon Vanier". It is composed of four tercets, and appeared in La Plume on May 15, 1893| it will be collected in 1896 in Invectives, increased by one stanza.
"I am a dirty drunkard, dam!
And so I received from Amsterdam
A basket or two of Schiedam"...
A reproduction of a manuscript by Béla Bartok, Barcarolla, is attached.