Mazeppa

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Title:     Mazeppa
Author: Victor Hugo [More Titles by Hugo]

("Ainsi, lorsqu'un mortel!")

[XXXIV., May, 1828.]

As when a mortal--Genius' prize, alack!
Is, living, bound upon thy fatal back,
Thou reinless racing steed!
In vain he writhes, mere cloud upon a star,
Thou bearest him as went Mazeppa, far
Out of the flow'ry mead,--
So--though thou speed'st implacable, (like him,
Spent, pallid, torn, bruised, weary, sore and dim,
As if each stride the nearer bring
Him to the grave)--when comes _the time_,
After the fall, he rises--KING!

 

Translated by H.L. WILLIAMS

[The end]
Victor Hugo's poem: Mazeppa

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