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The Sacking Of The City.
Victor Hugo
("La flamme par ton ordre, O roi!")
[XXIII., November, 1825.]
Thy will, O King, is done! Lighting but to consume,
The roar of the fierce flames drowned even the shouts and shrieks;...
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The Scourge Of Heaven.
Victor Hugo
("L', voyez-vous passer, la nu'e.")
[I., November, 1828.]
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Hast seen it pass, that cloud of darkest rim?
Now red and glorious, and now gray and dim,...
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The Son In Old Age.
Victor Hugo
("Ma Regina, cette noble figure.")
[LES BURGRAVES, Part II.]
Thy noble face, Regina, calls to mind
My poor lost little one, my latest born.
He was a gift from God - a sign of pardon -...
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The Trumpets Of The Mind.
Victor Hugo
("Sonnez, clairons de la pens'e!")
[Bk. VII. i., March 19, 1853.]
Sound, sound for ever, Clarions of Thought!
When Joshua 'gainst the high-walled city fought,...
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To A Sick Child During The Siege Of Paris.
Victor Hugo
("Si vous continuez toute p'le.")
[November, 1870.]
If you continue thus so wan and white;
If I, one day, behold
You pass from out our dull air to the light,
You, infant - I, so old:...
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To Cruel Ocean.
Victor Hugo
Where are the hapless shipmen? - disappeared,
Gone down, where witness none, save Night, hath been,
Ye deep, deep waves, of kneeling mothers feared,
What dismal tales know ye of things unseen?...
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To His Orphan Grandchildren.
Victor Hugo
("O Charles, je te sens pr's de moi.")
[July, 1871.]
I feel thy presence, Charles. Sweet martyr! down
In earth, where men decay,
I search, and see from cracks which rend thy tomb,...
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