Certain to find rest there, whate’er betide:

An angel holding in his sovereign hand

Sleep, and the guerdon of ecstatic dreams,

That smooths the couch and shuts the weary eyes:

The prisoner’s key; the leper’s healing streams;

The beggar’s purse; the exile’s fatherland;

The open portico to unknown skies.

Baudelaire, Fleurs du Mal.


The man hath reached the goal and won the prize,