Charles Baudelaire,
Poems of Charles Baudelaire — The Sky
(1906)
“ Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere, And peeps, with trembling glances, overhead. The heaven above? A strangling cavern wall; The lighted ceiling of a music-hall Where every actor treads a bloody soil— The hermit's hope; the terror of the sot; The sky: the black lid of the mighty pot Where the vast human generations boil! ”
