Dans ce jardin antique où les grandes allées

Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)



Dans ce jardin antique où les grandes allées
Passent sous les tilleuls si chastes, si voilées
Que toute fleur qui s'ouvre y semble un encensoir,
Où, marquant tous ses pas de l'aube jusqu'au soir,
L'heure met tour à tour dans les vases de marbre
Les rayons du soleil et les ombres de l'arbre,
Anges, vous le savez, oh ! comme avec amour,
Rêveur, je regardais dans la clarté du jour
Jouer l'oiseau qui vole et la branche qui plie,
Et de quels doux pensers mon âme était remplie,
Tandis que l'humble enfant dont je baise le front,
Avec son pas joyeux pressant mon pas moins prompt,
Marchait en m'entraînant vers la grotte où le lierre
Met une barbe verte au vieux fleuve de pierre !

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Victor Marie Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831. Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He was buried in the Panthéon. more…

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