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The Preceptor.
Victor Hugo
("Homme chauve et noir.")
[XIX., May, 1839.]
A gruesome man, bald, clad in black,
Who kept us youthful drudges in the track,
Thinking it good for them to leave home care,...
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The Quiet Rural Church.
Victor Hugo
It was a humble church, with arches low,
The church we entered there,
Where many a weary soul since long ago
Had past with plaint or prayer.
Mournful and still it was at day's decline,...
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The Refugee's Haven.
Victor Hugo
("Vous voil' dans la froide Angleterre.")
[Bk. III. xlvii., Jersey, Sept. 19, 1854.]
You may doubt I find comfort in England
But, there, 'tis a refuge from dangers!...
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The Retreat From Moscow.
Victor Hugo
("Il neigeait.")
[Bk. V. xiii., Nov. 25-30, 1852.]
It snowed. A defeat was our conquest red!
For once the eagle was hanging its head.
Sad days! the Emperor turned slowly his back...
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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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The Rose And The Grave.
Victor Hugo
("La tombe dit ' la rose.")
[XXXI., June 3, 1837]
The Grave said to the rose
"What of the dews of dawn,
Love's flower, what end is theirs?"
"And what of spirits flown,...
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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.]
I.
Hast seen it pass, that cloud of darkest rim?
Now red and glorious, and now gray and dim,...
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The Seaman's Song.
Victor Hugo
("Adieu, patrie.")
[Bk. V. ix., Aug. 1, 1852.]
Farewell the strand,
The sails expand
Above!
Farewell the land
We love!
Farewell, old home where apples swing!...
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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 Soudan, The Sphinxes, The Cup, The Lamp.
Victor Hugo
("Zim-Zizimi, Soudan d''gypte.")
[Bk. XVI. i.]
Zim Zizimi - (of the Soudan of burnt Egypt,
The Commander of Believers, a Bashaw
Whose very robes were from Asia's greatest stript,...
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The Sower.
Victor Hugo
Sitting in a porchway cool,
Fades the ruddy sunlight fast,
Twilight hastens on to rule -
Working hours are wellnigh past
Shadows shoot across the lands;
But one sower lingers still,...
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The Spanish Lady's Love.
Victor Hugo
DONNA SOL to HERNANI.
("Nous partirons demain.")
[HERNANI, ACT I.]
To mount the hills or scaffold, we go to-morrow:
Hernani, blame me not for this my boldness....
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The Swiss Mercenaries.
Victor Hugo
("Lorsque le regiment des hallebardiers.")
[Bk. XXXI.]
When the regiment of Halberdiers
Is proudly marching by,
The eagle of the mountain screams
From out his stormy sky;...
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The Three Glorious Days.
Victor Hugo
("Fr'res, vous avez vos journ'es.")
[I., July, 1830.]
Youth of France, sons of the bold,
Your oak-leaf victor-wreaths behold!
Our civic-laurels - honored dead!...
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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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The Turkish Captive.
Victor Hugo
("Si je n''tait captive.")
[IX., July, 1828.]
Oh! were I not a captive,
I should love this fair countree;
Those fields with maize abounding,
This ever-plaintive sea:...
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The Universal Prayer.
Victor Hugo
("Ma fille, va prier!")
[XXXVII., June, 1830.]
I.
Come, child, to prayer; the busy day is done,
A golden star gleams through the dusk of night;...
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The Universal Republic.
Victor Hugo
("Temps futurs.")
[Part "Lux," Jersey, Dec. 16-20, 1853.]
O vision of the coming time!
When man has 'scaped the trackless slime
And reached the desert spring;...
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The Vale To You, To Me The Heights. - A Fable.
Victor Hugo
[Bk. III. vi., October, 1846.]
A lion camped beside a spring, where came the Bird
Of Jove to drink:
When, haply, sought two kings, without their courtier herd,
The moistened brink,...
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