The Poem of Hashish

by Charles Baudelaire

translated by Aleister Crowley

CHAPTER I

THE LONGING FOR INFINITY
Those who know how to observe themselves, and who preserve the memory of their impressions, those who, like Hoffmann, have known how to construct their spiritual barometer, have sometimes had to note in the observatory of their mind find seasons, happy days, delicious minutes. There are days when man awakes with
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