Poems by Victor Hugo - HTML preview

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THE DESPATCH OF THE DOOM.

 

("Pendant que dans l'auberge.")
     {Bk. IV. xiii., Jersey, November, 1852.}

While in the jolly tavern, the bandits gayly drink,
     Upon the haunted highway, sharp hoof-beats loudly clink?
     Yea; past scant-buried victims, hard-spurring sturdy steed,
     A mute and grisly rider is trampling grass and weed,
     And by the black-sealed warrant which in his grasp shines clear,
     I known it is the Future—God's Justicer is here!