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VICTOR HUGO by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

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First Line: HE SET THE TRUMPET TO HIS LIPS, AND LO!
Last Line: WHERE THOU HAST CLIMBED, FOR EVER, OUT OF SIGHT!
Subject(s): HUGO, VICTOR (1802-1885);

HE set the trumpet to his lips, and lo!
The clash of waves, the roar of winds that blow,
The strife and stress of Nature's warring things,
Rose like a storm cloud, upon angry wings.

He set the reed pipe to his lips, and lo!
The wreck of landscape took a rosy glow,
And Life, and Love, and gladness that Love brings
Laughed in the music, like a child that sings.

Master of each, Arch-Master! We that still
Wait in the verge and outskirt of the Hill,
Look upward lonely -- lonely to the height
Where thou hast climbed, for ever, out of sight!



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