Sadly unnoticed by Gustave Flaubert, a wordsmith
Daydreaming of a moon mistress
The phantom awakes within the gilded artifice
Of Fontainebleau myths and quaintly shaped lakes
Beyond the miasma of Flemish tapestries and flesh
Diane remains an unextirpated perfumed letter
Whose Gothic script completely dissolves
In the labradorescent dance of the waves
Shining undines serenely salute
The first rays of the sun under five airy arches
Entwined initials which don't know the flow of time
Are watching the river don different masks
Henri sees the light of Diane and all lilies sing
Chenonceau stuccos are altered and diffused
When the chaste Diane wanes and turns dark
Only silvery water remains an unbending champion
Of eternal light in the evergreen spring of soul
Soothing streams bring a sharp finesse of mind
Inside a most sacred chapel of pure devotion
Where even crowned revenants find a way to trust
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem