Note 8 — AUTHOR’S NOTE.
Reading edition
The line which precedes these in Mallarmé’s poem is “Aimai-je un rêve?” and Wilfrid Thorley translates the passage thus:—
“Loved I Love’s counterfeit? My doubts, begotten of the long night’s heat, Dislimn the woodland till my triumph shows As the flawed shadow of a frustrate rose.”