The Chimera: Notre-Dame

The Chimera created by the Eternal Hours,
Seized by the perverse passion of Rabelais,
Disguised in Satan of the Eternal Towers
Of Notre-Dame that rule the night and day,
Himself destructive, his own self devours
His living flesh, this Bird of Evil Prey,
Lean as a lenten Monk, nor rains nor showers
Ever refresh: his one Desire to slay
The misbegotten child that the first Sin
Conceived from the body of primeval Lust;
Only his eyes, that see but from within,
Gloat over Paris. Shrivelled to the skin,
Hooded and clawed, his feet grind down the dust,