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Ave Atque Vale
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Ave Atque Vale – wiersz angielskiego poety Algernona Charlesa Swinburne’a[1][2][3], poświęcony pamięci Charlesa Baudelaire’a[4] i opatrzony mottem z Kwiatów zła. Tytuł, znaczący "Witaj i żegnaj", jest starorzymską formułą pożegnania zmarłego, poświadczoną w liryce Katullusa[5]. Utwór składa się z osiemnastu numerowanych strof jedenastowersowych.
- Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel,
- Brother, on this that was the veil of thee?
- Or quiet sea-flower moulded by the sea,
- Or simplest growth of meadow-sweet or sorrel,
- Such as the summer-sleepy Dryads weave,
- Waked up by snow-soft sudden rains at eve?
- Or wilt thou rather, as on earth before,
- Half-faded fiery blossoms, pale with heat
- And full of bitter summer, but more sweet
- To thee than gleanings of a northern shore
- Trod by no tropic feet?
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Wiersz obfituje w typowe dla stylu Swinburne’a aliteracje[1]: Thou sawest, in thine old singing season, brother,/Secrets and sorrows unbeheld of us; O sleepless heart and sombre soul unsleeping; Nor in your speech the sudden soul speaks thought,/Sleep, and have sleep for light; Or through mine ears a mourning musical/Of many mourners rolled; Makes manifest his music and his might.