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Llywelyn ".There are as many disgraceful ways of Dying As there are of living and yet it is harder to live Than to die. I say let them soak their mouths In the vinegar of repentance, let them see themselves If only for a moment, caught in their own distortions-" Saunders Lewis And then ? Llywelyn Let them prepare for the terrible journey." Saunders Lewis And if they prepare for a journey, where Shall the journey take them ? Llywelyn Between the tropics of Disaster. Along The margin of Death. Into the wet marsh where the sore feet sink And the heart fails and the belly rumbles with hunger. Into the dusty wilderness where the earth cracks And a dizzy vulture hovers under the glaring sun. Along the endless corridors of Time in pursuit Of the traveller's horizon, for ever moving on." Saunders Lewis If journey's end will be the rich reward Where will it rest at last ? Llywelyn At any time the fortunate and the blessed shall see The enormous gift of salvation And their brief breath life shall become Laced, as by frost, with exultation." From Baudelaire's Journaux Intimes T'H E unclassified notes which Baudelaire left among his papers were of two kinds. The first were simply ideas which seemed to him of interest, and notions of stories, etc., which were never written. The second, which date from the last few years of his life (1821-67), were meant to be developed in a book which was to be called Mon Coeur mis a Nu. His conception of this book is described in a letter to his mother, June 5th, 1863 Yes, this book will be a book of spite. Certainly my mother, and even my step-father will be respected in it. But, at the same time that I relate my up-bringing, the way in which my ideas and sentiments have been formed I shall make unceasingly felt my sense of being foreign to the world and its