Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OCEANO NOX, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO



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First Line: Oh! How many mariners, how many captains
Last Line: Of the blindman singing in the corner of an old bridge.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


Oh! how many mariners, how many captains
Who set off lighthearted for faraway journeys
Are vanished in this mournful horizon! . . .

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How many skippers dead with their crews!
The Ocean took all the pages of their lives
And with one puff scattered them over the waves.
None will know their end sunk in the deep . . .

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None will know their names, not even the humble stone
In the narrow cemetery where echoes answer us,
Not even the green weeping willow shedding its leaves in the fall,
Not even the plaintive monotonous song
Of the blindman singing in the corner of an old bridge.





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