Then, Most, I Smile

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Title:     Then, Most, I Smile
Author: Victor Hugo [More Titles by Hugo]

("Il est un peu tard.")

[Bk. III. xxx., Oct. 30, 1854.]

Late it is to look so proud,
Daisy queen! come is the gloom
Of the winter-burdened cloud!--
"But, in winter, most I bloom!"

Star of even! sunk the sun!
Lost for e'er the ruddy line;
And the earth is veiled in dun,--
"Nay, in darkness, best I shine!"

O, my soul! art 'bove alarm,
Quaffing thus the cup of gall--
Canst thou face the grave with calm?--
"Yes, the Christians smile at all."

[The end]
Victor Hugo's poem: Then, Most, I Smile

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