Poems by Victor Hugo - HTML preview

THE POOL AND THE SOUL.

("Comme dans les étangs.")
     {X., May, 1839.}

As in some stagnant pool by forest-side,
     In human souls two things are oft descried;
     The sky,—which tints the surface of the pool
     With all its rays, and all its shadows cool;
     The basin next,—where gloomy, dark and deep,
     Through slime and mud black reptiles vaguely creep.

     R.F. HODGSON