Verlaine's Dual Nature

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  It appears, from a note in your columns, that wicked but gifted Paul Verlaine is to become a sweet Christian poet, by arrangement of the Catholic clergy. It seems such a neat and simple process, just to "expunge" "the risky and fitfully blasphemous moods" from his works, that one could wish it might have been undertaken earlier. But no doubt those clever Catholic fathers know what they are about. It is possible that if they had begun on the "risky moods" during the poet's lifetime they might have found, like the deacon who attacked the profanity in the "Pinafore" chorus, that that was all there was of it.