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Shooting Stars.
Victor Hugo
[FOR MY LITTLE CHILD ONLY.]
("Tas de feux tombants.")
[Bk. III. vii.]
See the scintillating shower!
Like a burst from golden mine -
Incandescent coals that pour...
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Song Of Love.
Victor Hugo
("S'il est un charmant gazon.")
[XXII, Feb. 18, 1834.]
If there be a velvet sward
By dewdrops pearly drest,
Where through all seasons fairies guard
Flowers by bees carest,...
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Song Of The German Lanzknecht
Victor Hugo
("Sonnex, clarions!")
[Bk. VI. vii.]
Flourish the trumpet! and rattle the drum!
The Reiters are mounted! the Reiters will come!
When our bullets cease singing...
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Still Be A Child.
Victor Hugo
("O vous que votre 'ge d'fende")
[IX., February, 1840.]
In youthful spirits wild,
Smile, for all beams on thee;
Sport, sing, be still the child,
The flower, the honey-bee.
...
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St. John.
Victor Hugo
("Un jour, le morne esprit.")
[Bk. VI. vii., Jersey, September, 1855.]
One day, the sombre soul, the Prophet most sublime
At Patmos who aye dreamed,...
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Sunset.
Victor Hugo
("Le soleil s'est couch'")
[XXXV. vi., April, 1829.]
The sun set this evening in masses of cloud,
The storm comes to-morrow, then calm be the night,...
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Sweet Charmer.
Victor Hugo
("L'aube na't et ta porte est close.")
[XXIII., February, 18 - .]
Though heaven's gate of light uncloses,
Thou stirr'st not - thou'rt laid to rest,
Waking are thy sister roses,...
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Sweet Memory Of Love.
Victor Hugo
("Toutes les passions s''loignent avec l''ge.")
[XXXIV. ii., October, 183-.]
As life wanes on, the passions slow depart,
One with his grinning mask, one with his steel;...
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Sweet Sister.
Victor Hugo
("Vous qui ne savez pas combien l'enfance est belle.")
Sweet sister, if you knew, like me,
The charms of guileless infancy,
No more you'd envy riper years,
Or smiles, more bitter than your tears....
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The Beacon In The Storm.
Victor Hugo
("Quels sont ces bruits sourds?")
[XXIV., July 17, 1836.]
Hark to that solemn sound!
It steals towards the strand. -
Whose is that voice profound
Which mourns the swallowed land,...
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The Beggar's Quatrain.
Victor Hugo
("Aveugle comme Hom're.")
[Improvised at the Caf' de Paris.]
Blind, as was Homer; as Belisarius, blind,
But one weak child to guide his vision dim....
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The Boy-King's Prayer.
Victor Hugo
("Le cheval galopait toujours.")
[Bk. XV. ii. 10.]
The good steed flew o'er river and o'er plain,
Till far away, - no need of spur or rein.
The child, half rapture, half solicitude,...
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The Cymbaleer's Bride.
Victor Hugo
("Monseigneur le Duc de Bretagne.")
[VI., October, 1825.]
My lord the Duke of Brittany
Has summoned his barons bold -
Their names make a fearful litany!...
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The Emperor's Return.
Victor Hugo
("Un bouffon manquait ' cette f'te.")
[LES BURGRAVES, Part II.]
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The Exile's Desire.
Victor Hugo
("Si je pouvais voir, O patrie!")
[Bk. III. xxxvii.]
Would I could see you, native land,
Where lilacs and the almond stand
Behind fields flowering to the strand -
But no!
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The Father's Curse.
Victor Hugo
("Vous, sire, 'coutez-moi.")
[LE ROI S'AMUSE, Act I.]
M. ST. VALLIER (an aged nobleman, from whom King Francis I. decoyed his daughter, the famous beauty, Diana of Poitiers).
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The Favorite Sultana.
Victor Hugo
("N'ai-je pas pour toi, belle juive.")
[XII., Oct. 27, 1828.]
To please you, Jewess, jewel!
I have thinned my harem out!
Must every flirting of your fan
Presage a dying shout?
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The Lover's Sacrifice.
Victor Hugo
("Fuyons ensemble.")
[HERNANI, Act II.]
DONNA SOL. Together let us fly!
HERNANI. Together? No! the hour is past for flight.
Dearest, when first thy beauty smote my sight,...
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The Lover's Wish.
Victor Hugo
("Si j''tais la feuille.")
[XXII., September, 1828.]
Oh! were I the leaf that the wind of the West,
His course through the forest uncaring;
To sleep on the gale or the wave's placid breast...
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Then, Most, I Smile.
Victor Hugo
("Il est un peu tard.")
[Bk. III. xxx., Oct. 30, 1854.]
Late it is to look so proud,
Daisy queen! come is the gloom
Of the winter-burdened cloud! -
"But, in winter, most I bloom!"...
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