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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poet's Biography
First Line: The child was living to laugh and to play
Last Line: Is desolate for this one child less!
First Line: The child was living to laugh and to play
Last Line: Is desolate for this one child less!
THE child was living to laugh and to play—
O Nature, why didst thou take him away?
Hast thou not thy birds as the rainbows bright?
Thy stars and thy woods, thy lakes and thy skies?
Why didst thou take from his mother's eyes,
And hide him, 'neath flowers away from sight?
No richer thou for this one child more,
Nor starlit Nature more glad than before.
And the mother's heart where such pain doth press,
Where each joy engenders a grief—the heart
Which is just as great as thou, Nature, art,
Is desolate for this one child less!
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AFTER THE BATTLE by VICTOR MARIE HUGO
AN EVENING SCENE by VICTOR MARIE HUGO
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