The spectacle which presented itself to his eyes, when his ragged escort finally deposited him at the end of his trip, was not fitted to bear him back to poetry, even to the poetry of hell.
Le spectacle qui s’offrit à ses yeux, quand son escorte en guenilles le déposa enfin au terme de sa course, n’était pas propre à le ramener à la poésie, fût-ce même à la poésie de l’enfer.