English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. The Harvard Classics. 190914. |
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| 390. To Toussaint LOuverture |
| | | William Wordsworth (17701850) |
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| TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men! | |
| Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough | |
| Within thy hearing, or thy head be now | |
| Pillowed in some deep dungeons earless den; | |
| O miserable Chieftain! where and when | 5 |
| Wilt thou find patience? Yet die not; do thou | |
| Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow: | |
| Though fallen thyself, never to rise again, | |
| Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind | |
| Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; | 10 |
| Theres not a breathing of the common wind | |
| That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; | |
| Thy friends are exultations, agonies, | |
| And love, and mans unconquerable mind. | |
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