Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Besançon | | Toussaint L’Ouverture | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | TOUSSAINT!—thou most unhappy man of men! | |
| Whether the whistling rustic tends his plough | |
| Within thy hearing, or thou liest now | |
| Buried in some deep dungeon’s 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 |
| There ’s not a breathing of the common wind | |
| That will forget thee: thou hast great allies. | |
| Thy friends are exultations, agonies, | |
| And love, and man’s unconquerable mind. | | | | |
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