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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poet's Biography
First Line: If some fragrant lawn be found
Last Line: For your heart to rest.
First Line: If some fragrant lawn be found
Last Line: For your heart to rest.
IF some fragrant lawn be found,
By dews of heaven blest,
Where are seen the whole year round
Flowers in beauty dressed;
Where rose, pink, and lilies rare,
All in rich profusion are--
I would make a pathway there
For your foot to rest.
If there be that well can love
Some devoted breast,
Which all virtue doth approve,
All things base detest;
If that bosom always beat
To perform heroic feat--
There I find a pillow meet
For your brow to rest.
If a dream of love there be
By all sweets possest,
Where each fleeting hour we see
Whatsoe'er is best--
Dream, God-hallowed, bright and kind,
Where the soul to soul is joined--
There a shelter would I find
For your heart to rest.
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