Four Versions of Rimbaud

"Sleeper in the Valley," ca. October 1870 : Oliver Bernard, Wyatt Mason, Robert Lowell, Martin Sorrell

Sleeper in the Valley

It is a green hollow where a stream gurgles,
Crazily catching silver rags of itself on the grasses;
Where the sun shines from the proud mountain:
It is a little valley bubbling over with light.

A young soldier, open-mouthed, bare-headed,
With the nape of his neck bathed in cool blue cresses,
Sleeps; he is stretched out on the grass, unde…