Poems by Victor Hugo - HTML preview

INVOCATION.

{V, vi., August, 1832.}

Say, Lord! for Thou alone canst tell
     Where lurks the good invisible
     Amid the depths of discord's sea—
     That seem, alas! so dark to me!
     Oppressive to a mighty state,
     Contentions, feuds, the people's hate—
     But who dare question that which fate
         Has ordered to have been?
     Haply the earthquake may unfold
     The resting-place of purest gold,
     And haply surges up have rolled
         The pearls that were unseen!

     G.W.M. REYNOLDS.