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Le sanglot de la terre the title of both a collection of poetry and an individual a poem by Jules Laforgue.

The individual poem was written in 1880 and posthumously published in 1901. Oui, ce monde est bien plat ; quant à l'autre, sornettes.
Moi, je vais résigné, sans espoir, à mon sort,
Et pour tuer le temps, en attendant la mort,
Je fume au nez des dieux de fines cigarettes.

Allez, vivants, luttez, pauvres futurs squelettes,
Moi, le méandre bleu qui vers le ciel se tord,
Me plonge en une extase infinie et m'endort
Comme aux parfums mourants de mille cassolettes.

Et j'entre au paradis, fleuri de rêves clairs
Où l'on voit se mêler en valses fantastiques
Des éléphants en rut à des chœurs de moustiques.

Et puis, quand je m'éveille en songeant à mes vers,
Je contemple, le cœur plein d'une douce joie,
Mon cher pouce rôti comme une cuisse d'oie.

The Sob of the Earth: A translation

Yes, this world is indeed flat, while the other nonsense.
I am resigned, without hope, in my fate,
And to kill time until death,
I smoke by the noses of the gods thin cigarettes.

Go, live, strive, poor future skeletons,
I, the blue meander which toward the blue sky twists,
plunge into an infinite ecstasy and end up sleeping
As a perfume dying of a thousand dishes.

And I enter paradise, filled with flowery yet clear dreams
Where seen mingling in waltzes fantastic
Elephants in choirs of mosquitoes.

And then, when I wake dreaming of my verse,
I contemplate the heart full of a sweet joy,
My dear thumb roasted as a goose's thigh.

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