The Despatch Of The Doom

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Title:     The Despatch Of The Doom
Author: Victor Hugo [More Titles by Hugo]

("Pendant que dans l'auberge.")

[Bk. IV. xiii., Jersey, November, 1852.]

While in the jolly tavern, the bandits gayly drink,
Upon the haunted highway, sharp hoof-beats loudly clink?
Yea; past scant-buried victims, hard-spurring sturdy steed,
A mute and grisly rider is trampling grass and weed,
And by the black-sealed warrant which in his grasp shines clear,
I known it is _the Future_--God's Justicer is here!

[The end]
Victor Hugo's poem: Despatch Of The Doom

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