Poems by Victor Hugo - HTML preview

THE BEGGAR'S QUATRAIN.

("Aveugle comme Homère.")
     {Improvised at the Café de Paris.}

Blind, as was Homer; as Belisarius, blind,
       But one weak child to guide his vision dim.
     The hand which dealt him bread, in pity kind—
       He'll never see; God sees it, though, for him.

     H.L.C., "London Society."