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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: Give heed unto this little lad
Last Line: And finds them ragged in array!
Subject(s): Children; God; Childhood
First Line: Give heed unto this little lad
Last Line: And finds them ragged in array!
Subject(s): Children; God; Childhood
GIVE heed unto this little lad
For great is he, our God's own shrine,
A light, ere earthly vesture clad,
That shone in heaven's own hyaline.
Bestowed by God for us on earth
Out of his endless treasuring,
God's wisdom shineth in his mirth,
His kiss bespeaks God's pardoning.
His soft light beams upon us all,
Alas! Joy is his rightful path;
An-hungered, angel tears down fall;
A-cold, all heaven thrills with wrath.
If sinless ones have want for dower,
Man's shameful sin's arraigned thereby;
He holds the angels in his power.
What thunder hurtles terribly
When God doth find them here sore hurt
Within the darkness of our day,
Who sent them to us wing-begirt,
And finds them ragged in array!
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