Yes, when all the world from Paris to China
Pays heed to your doctrine, O divine Saint-Simon,
The glorious Golden Age will be reborn.
Rivers will flow with chocolate and tea,
Sheep roasted whole will frisk on the plain,
And sauteed pike will swim in the Seine.
Fricasseed spinach will grow on the ground,
Garnished with crushed fried croutons;
The trees will bring forth apple compotes,
And farmers will harvest boots and coats.
It will snow wine, it will rain chickens,
And ducks cooked with turnips will fall from the sky.
→ Langle and Vanderburch, Louis-Bronze et le Saint-Simonien, Theatre du Palais-Royal, February 27, 1832
[cited in Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trnsl. by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, Harvard University Press, USA, 2002]
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