Poems and Baudelaire Flowers/Lola de Valence

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Poems and Baudelaire Flowers
by Charles Baudelaire, translated by John Collings Squire
2672922Poems and Baudelaire FlowersJohn Collings SquireCharles Baudelaire

LOLA DE VALENCE
INSCRIPTION FOR THE PICTURE BY
EDWARD MANET

Friends, though on every side of you you see
Such beauties that desire must hesitate,
In Lola de Valence there scintillate
Strange charms o’ a gem of rose and ebony.