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XIII
Prince mort en soldat à cause de la France,
Âme certes élue,
Fier jeune homme si pur tombé plein d'espérance,
Je t'aime et te salue !Ce monde est si mauvais, notre pauvre patrie
Va sous tant de ténèbres,
Vaisseau désemparé dont l'équipage crie
Avec des voix funèbres,Ce siècle...
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« Quand je cause avec toi paisiblement,
Ce m’est vraiment charmant, tu causes si paisiblement !Quand je dispute et te fais des reproches,
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Tu disputes, c’est drôle, et me fais aussi des reproches. -
I served in a great cause:
Long had I doubted the call I heard, wantoning the seasons dead;
The opportune days were deserts, the sunlight fell on a waste,
But the dawn brought me face to face with itself, with the opening flowers:
I looked upon my sea casting its wrecks down the shore in the storm,
The wrecks, my useless volitions, disordered, missent,... -
From “The Light of the Harem”
ALAS! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain has tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off,
Like ships that have gone down at sea,
When heaven was all tranquillity!A...
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From “Sentinel Songs”
THE FALLEN cause still waits,—
Its bard has not come yet,
His song—through one of to-morrow’s gates
Shall shine—but never set.But when he comes—he ’ll sweep
A harp with tears all stringed,
And the very notes he strikes will weep,
As they come, from his hand, woe-winged.Ah! grand shall be...
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Si l'aveugle fureur, qui cause les batailles,
Des pareils animaux n'a les coeurs allumés,
Soit ceux qui vont courant ou soit les emplumés,
Ceux-là qui vont rampant ou les armés d'écailles :
Quelle ardente Erinnys de ses rouges tenailles
Vous pincetait les coeurs de rage envenimés,
Quand si cruellement l'un sur l'autre animés
Vous détrempiez le fer en... -
God made no act without a cause,
Nor heart without an aim,
Our inference is premature,
Our premises to blame. -
I had no Cause to be awake —
My Best — was gone to sleep —
And Morn a new politeness took —
And failed to wake them up —
But called the others — clear —
And passed their Curtains by —
Sweet Morning — when I oversleep —
Knock — Recollect — to Me —
I looked at Sunrise —...Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause?
"A Soul has gone to Heaven"
I'm answered in a lonesome tone —
Is Heaven then a Prison?
That Bells should ring till all should know
A Soul had gone to Heaven
Would seem to me the more the way
A Good News should be given.