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The Boy On The Barricade.
Victor Hugo
("Sur une barricade.")
[June, 1871.]
Like Casabianca on the devastated deck,
In years yet younger, but the selfsame core.
Beside the battered barricado's restless wreck,...
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The Children Of The Poor.
Victor Hugo
("Prenez garde ' ce petit 'tre.")
[LAUS PUER: POEM V.]
Take heed of this small child of earth;
He is great: in him is God most high.
Children before their fleshly birth...
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The Cup On The Battle-Field.
Victor Hugo
("Mon p're, ce h'ros au sourire.")
[Bk. XLIX. iv.]
My sire, the hero with the smile so soft,
And a tall trooper, his companion oft,
Whom he loved greatly for his courage high...
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The Despatch Of The Doom.
Victor Hugo
("Pendant que dans l'auberge.")
[Bk. IV. xiii., Jersey, November, 1852.]
While in the jolly tavern, the bandits gayly drink,
Upon the haunted highway, sharp hoof-beats loudly clink?...
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The Epic Of The Lion.
Victor Hugo
("Un lion avait pris un enfant.")
[XIII.]
A Lion in his jaws caught up a child -
Not harming it - and to the woodland, wild
With secret streams and lairs, bore off his prey -...
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The Eruption Of Vesuvius.
Victor Hugo
("Quand longtemps a grond' la bouche du V'suve.")
[I. vii.]
When huge Vesuvius in its torment long,
Threatening has growled its cavernous jaws among,...
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The Feast Of Freedom.
Victor Hugo
("Lorsqu'' l'antique Olympe immolant l'evangile.")
[Bk. II. v., 1823.]
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The Girl Of Otaheite.
Victor Hugo
("O! dis-moi, tu veux fuir?")
[Bk. IV, vii., Jan. 31, 1821.]
Forget? Can I forget the scented breath
Of breezes, sighing of thee, in mine ear;
The strange awaking from a dream of death,...
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The Land Of Fable.
Victor Hugo
("L'Orient! qu'y voyez-vous, po'tes?")
[PRELUDE, b.]
Now, vot'ries of the Muses, turn your eyes,
Unto the East, and say what there appears!
"Alas!" the voice of Poesy replies,...
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The Lesson Of The Patriot Dead.
Victor Hugo
("O caresse sublime.")
[April, 1871.]
Upon the grave's cold mouth there ever have caresses clung
For those who died ideally good and grand and pure and young;...
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The Morning Of Life.
Victor Hugo
("Le voile du matin.")
[Bk. V. viii., April, 1822.]
The mist of the morning is torn by the peaks,
Old towers gleam white in the ray,
And already the glory so joyously seeks...
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The Morrow Of Grandeur.
Victor Hugo
("Non, l'avenir n'est ' personne!")
[V. ii., August, 1832.]
Sire, beware, the future's range
Is of God alone the power,
Naught below but augurs change,
E'en with ev'ry passing hour....
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The Obdurate Beauty.
Victor Hugo
("A Juana la Grenadine!")
[XXIX., October, 1843.]
To Juana ever gay,
Sultan Achmet spoke one day
"Lo, the realms that kneel to own
Homage to my sword and crown...
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The Ocean's Song.
Victor Hugo
("Nous nous promenions ' Rozel-Tower.")
[Bk. VI. iv., October, 1852.]
We walked amongst the ruins famed in story
Of Rozel-Tower,
And saw the boundless waters stretch in glory...
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The Old And The Young Bridegroom.
Victor Hugo
("L'homme auquel on vous destina.")
[HERNANI, Act I.]
Listen. The man for whom your youth is destined,
Your uncle, Ruy de Silva, is the Duke
Of Pastrana, Count of Castile and Aragon....
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The Old Man's Love.
Victor Hugo
("D'rision! que cet amour boiteux.")
[HERNANI, Act III.]
O mockery! that this halting love
That fills the heart so full of flame and transport,
Forgets the body while it fires the soul!...
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The Patience Of The People.
Victor Hugo
("Il s'est dit tant de fois.")
[III., May, 1830.]
How often have the people said: "What's power?"
Who reigns soon is dethroned? each fleeting hour
Has onward borne, as in a fevered dream,...
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The Pity Of The Angels.
Victor Hugo
("Un Ange vit un jour.")
[LA PITI' SUPREME VIII., 1881.]
When an angel of kindness
Saw, doomed to the dark,
Men framed in his likeness,
He sought for a spark -...
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The Portrait Of A Child.
Victor Hugo
("Oui, ce front, ce sourire.")
[Bk. V. xxii., November, 1825.]
That brow, that smile, that cheek so fair,
Beseem my child, who weeps and plays:
A heavenly spirit guards her ways,...
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The Roll Of The De Silva Race.
Victor Hugo
("Celui-ci, des Silvas, c'est l'a'n'.")
[HERNANI, Act III.]
In that reverend face
Behold the father of De Silva's race,
Silvius; in Rome he filled the consul's place...
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