Guillaume APOLLINAIRE. Autograph poem signed "Guillaume Apol - Lot 2

Guillaume APOLLINAIRE. Autograph poem signed "Guillaume Apollinaire", To the Proletarian, [Munich March-April 1902?]; 1 page in-4 (21.3 x 17 cm) on the spine on the letterhead of the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, München. This poem was published in 1952 in Le Guetteur mélancolique, a collection of unpublished or found poems written by Bernard Poissonnier and Robert Mallet. The manuscript, in black ink, is illustrated in the margin with a drawing of a head. The poem was intended to be longer, but Apollinaire tore off the bottom of the sheet and affixed his signature to the bottom of the 2nd stanza. Note that the punctuation of the manuscript has been removed in the edition; the editors also changed the first line to an alexandrine, and corrected the penultimate line. The poem has 28 lines, in two 14-line stanzas. "O innocent captive who can't sing Listen as you work. While you are silent, Mixed with the clash of tools, elemental noises Mark in nature a good austere work. [ ] Yet you know that it is you, you, who make beauty Who feed humans from unjust cities And you sometimes dream of divine alcoves When you're sad and weary, by day deep in the mines."