The Beggar's Quatrain

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Title:     The Beggar's Quatrain
Author: Victor Hugo [More Titles by Hugo]

("Aveugle comme Homere.")

[Improvised at the Cafe 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.

 

Translated by H.L.C., "_London Society._"

[The end]
Victor Hugo's poem: Beggar's Quatrain

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