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The poems are from Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée (The Bestiary or Retinue of Orpheus) (1911) by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918).

These translations, together with Morgan's version of four other poems from the sequence, were reprinted in Ian Hamilton Finlay's magazine Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., no. 11 in 1964.

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The poems are from Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée (The Bestiary or Retinue of Orpheus) (1911) by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918).

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