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Bismarck's dream
By Wyatt Mason (Trans.) and Arthur Rimbaud
By Arthur Rimbaud. This prose poem appeared in the November 25, 1870, edition of Le Progrès des Ardennes, a local newspaper in northeastern France. A commentary on the ongoing Franco-Prussian War, it was published under the pseudonym Jean Baudry, which Rimbaud, who was sixteen at the time, used frequently. A copy of the newspaper was discovered in France in April, and the poem was reprinted in Le Figaro. Translated from the French by Wyatt Mason.
Evening. In his tent, surrounded by silence and dreams, Bismarck, a finger on a map of France, thinks; from his enormous pipe, a blue thread escapes.
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