The Pool And The Soul

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Title:     The Pool And The Soul
Author: Victor Hugo [More Titles by Hugo]

("Comme dans les etangs.")

[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.

Translated by R.F. HODGSON

[The end]
Victor Hugo's poem: Pool And The Soul

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