What is that sad, black island like a pall? Why, Cytherea, famed in many a book, The Eldorado of old-stagers. Look: It's but a damned poor country after all! (Charles Baudelaire)

What is that sad, black island like a pall? Why, Cytherea, famed in many a book, The Eldorado of old-stagers. Look: It's but a damned poor country after all!

Charles Baudelaire

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