Toys And Tragedy

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Title:     Toys And Tragedy
Author: Victor Hugo [More Titles by Hugo]

("Enfants, on vous dira plus tard.")

[January, 1871.]

In later years, they'll tell you grandpapa
Adored his little darlings; for them did
His utmost just to pleasure them and mar
No moments with a frown or growl amid
Their rosy rompings; that he loved them so
(Though men have called him bitter, cold, and stern,)
That in the famous winter when the snow
Covered poor Paris, he went, old and worn,
To buy them dolls, despite the falling shells,
At which laughed Punch, and they, and shook his bells.

[The end]
Victor Hugo's poem: Toys And Tragedy

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