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The Djinns.
Victor Hugo
("Murs, ville et port.")
[XXVIII., Aug. 28, 1828.]
Town, tower,
Shore, deep,
Where lower
Cliff's steep;
Waves gray,
Where play
Winds gay,
All sleep.
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The Dying Child To Its Mother.
Victor Hugo
("Oh! vous aurez trop dit.")
[Bk. III. xiv., April, 1843.]
Ah, you said too often to your angel
There are other angels in the sky -
There, where nothing changes, nothing suffers,...
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The Eaglet Mourned.
Victor Hugo
("Encore si ce banni n'e't rien aim' sur terre.")
[V, iv., August, 1832.]
Too hard Napoleon's fate! if, lone,
No being he had loved, no single one,
Less dark that doom had been....
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The Eighteenth Century.
Victor Hugo
("O dix-huiti'me si'cle!")
[IV. vi]
O Eighteenth Century! by Heaven chastised!
Godless thou livedst, by God thy doom was fixed.
Thou in one ruin sword and sceptre mixed,...
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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 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 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 Fay And The Peri.
Victor Hugo
("O' vas-tu donc, jeune 'me.")
[XV.]
THE PERI.
Beautiful spirit, come with me
Over the blue enchanted sea:
Morn and evening thou canst play
In my garden, where the breeze...
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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 First Black Flag.
Victor Hugo
("Avez-vous oui dire?")
[LES BURGRAVES, Part I., March, 1843.]
JOB. Hast thou ne'er heard men say
That, in the Black Wood, 'twixt Cologne and Spire,...
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The Giant In Glee.
Victor Hugo
("Ho, guerriers! je suis n' dans le pays des Gaules.")
[V., March 11, 1825.]
Ho, warriors! I was reared in the land of the Gauls;
O'er the Rhine my ancestors came bounding like balls...
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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 Grandmother
Victor Hugo
("Dors-tu? m're de notre m're.")
[III., 1823.]
"To die - to sleep." - SHAKESPEARE.
Still asleep! We have been since the noon thus alone.
Oh, the hours we have ceased to number!...
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The Greek Boy.
Victor Hugo
("Les Turcs ont pass's l'.")
[XVIII., June 10, 1828.]
All is a ruin where rage knew no bounds:
Chio is levelled, and loathed by the hounds,
For shivered yest'reen was her lance;...
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The Humble Home.
Victor Hugo
("L''glise est vaste et haute.")
[IV., June 29, 1839.]
The Church[1] is vast; its towering pride, its steeples loom on high;
The bristling stones with leaf and flower are sculptured wondrously;...
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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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