Native moments! when you come upon me – Ah you are here now!
Give me now libidinous joys only!
Give me the drench of my passions!
Give me life coarse and rank! To-day,
I go consort with nature’s darlings – to-night too;
I am for those who believe in loose delights – I share the midnight orgies of young men;
I dance with the dancers, and drink with the drinkers;
The echoes ring with our indecent calls;
I take for my love some prostitute – I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate – he shall be one condemn’d by others for deeds done;
I will play a part no longer – Why should I exile myself from my companions?
O you shunn’d persons! I at least do not shun you, I come forthwith in your midst – I will be your poet,
I will be more to you than to any of the rest.