The Ocean's Song

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Title:     The Ocean's Song
Author: Victor Hugo [More Titles by Hugo]

("Nous nous promenions a Rozel-Tower.")

[Bk. VI. iv., October, 1852.]

We walked amongst the ruins famed in story
Of Rozel-Tower,
And saw the boundless waters stretch in glory
And heave in power.

O ocean vast! we heard thy song with wonder,
Whilst waves marked time.
"Appeal, O Truth!" thou sang'st with tone of thunder,
"And shine sublime!

"The world's enslaved and hunted down by beagles,--
To despots sold,
Souls of deep thinkers, soar like mighty eagles,
The Right uphold.

"Be born; arise; o'er earth and wild waves bounding
Peoples and suns!
Let darkness vanish;--tocsins be resounding,
And flash, ye guns!

"And you,--who love no pomps of fog, or glamour,
Who fear no shocks,
Brave foam and lightning, hurricane and clamor,
Exiles--the rocks!"

 

Translated by: TORU DUTT

[The end]
Victor Hugo's poem: Ocean's Song

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