| Le voici, l’ange malade qui lentement s’abime
| Here he is, the sick angel slowly fading away
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| Des cieux où il est né aux gouffres anonymes
| From the skies where he was born to nameless chasms
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| Il traine sa carcasse, que fatigue son áge
| He drags his carcass, tired by his age
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| En révant en secret aux ors et au carnage
| Secretly dreaming of golds and carnage
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| Il regrette parfois le confort des fosses
| He sometimes misses the comfort of the pits
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| Quand il glisse dans l’onde, sous l'æil de Cronos
| When it slips in the wave, under the eye of Cronus
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| Qu’il embrasse au milieu des démons et des porcs
| Let him kiss in the midst of demons and pigs
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| Des damnés, et des monstres, qui calcinent l’Athanor
| Of the damned, and monsters, who scorch the Athanor
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| Son nom est sans jamais, ni toujours, ni mesure
| His name is without ever, always, or measure
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| Il marque sur son front l’opposé de l’Azur
| He marks on his forehead the opposite of the Azure
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| Et dessine le plan des géographies grises
| And draw the map of gray geographies
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| Oú acharnent ses pairs, dans des plaines sordides
| Where his peers relentlessly, in sordid plains
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| Tout entières replies d’aberrants hybrides
| Entirely filled with hybrid outliers
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| Vingt mille pieds sous la glace et la banquise
| Twenty thousand feet under ice and pack ice
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| Car sans demain est le silence des gouffres
| Because without tomorrow is the silence of the chasms
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| Insondables abimes, au furieux appétit
| Unfathomable abysses, furiously hungry
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| Qui digérent, narquois, en leur ventre ravi
| Who digest, sardonically, in their delighted belly
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| Larmes acides, la bile, et puis le soufre | Sour tears, bile, and then sulfur |