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FACT OR FABLE?

by Hugo, Victor

.... III. xi., July, 1853.} 


 O paths whereon wild grasses wave! 
 O valleys! hillsides! forests hoar! 
 Why are ye silent as the grave? 
 For One, who came, and comes no more! 
 
 Why is thy window closed of late? 
 And why thy garden in its sear? 
 O house! where doth thy master wait? 
 I only know he is not here. 
 
 Good dog! thou watchest; yet no hand 
 Will feed thee. In the house is none. 
 Whom weepest thou? child! My father. And 
 O wife! whom weepest ...Read more of this...

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