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Selections Chiefly Lyrical From the Poetical Works of Victor Hugo
Selections Chiefly Lyrical From the Poetical Works of Victor Hugo Author:Victor Hugo General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: George Bell and sons Subjects: French poetry Foreign Language Study / Chinese Foreign Language Study / Japanese Literary Criticism / European / French Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.... more » It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: XL The palm-tree that grows on the rock to this day, Feels its leaf growing yellow, its slight stem decay, In the blasting and ponderous air ; These towns are no more ! but to mirror their past, O'er their embers a cold lake spread far and spread fast, With smoke like a furnace, lies there ! 4J. N. Fazakeelet. PIRATES' SONG. v (" Nou s emmenions en esclavage") [viii., March, 1828. We're bearing five-score Christian dogs To serve the cruel drivers : Some are fair beauties gently born, And some rough coral-divers. We hardy skimmers of the sea Are lucky in each sally, And, eighty strong, we send along The dreaded Pirate Galley. A nunnery was spied ashore, We lowered away the cutter, And, landing, seized the youngest nun Ere she a cry could utter ; Beside the creek, deaf to our oars, She slumbered in green alley, As, eighty strong, we sent along The dreaded Pirate Galley. " Be silent, darling, you must come -- , The wind is off shore blowing ; You only change your prison dull For one that's splendid, glowing ! His Highness doats on milky cheeks, So do not make us dally " -- i We, eighty strong, who send along i The dreaded Pirate Galley. She sought to flee back to her cell, And called as each a devil! We dare do aught becomes Old Scratch, But like a treatment civil, So, spite of buffet, prayers, and calls -- ' Too late her friends to rally -...« less