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Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
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