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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534046" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Exile's Choice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since justice slumbers in the abysm,<br>Since the crime's crowned with despotism,<br>Since all most upright souls are smitten,<br>Since proudest souls are bowed for shame,<br>Since on the walls in lines of flame<br>My country's dark dishonour's written; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O grand Republic of our sires,<br>Pantheon filled with sacred fires,<br>In the free azure golden dome,<br>Temple with shades immortal thronged!<br>Since thus thy glory they have wronged,<br>With 'Empire' staining Freedom's home; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since in my country each soul born<br>Is base; since there are laughed to scorn<br>The true, the pure, the great, the brave,<br>The indignant eyes of history,<br>Honour, law, right, and liberty,<br>And those, alas! within the grave: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Solitude, exile ! I love them !<br>Sorrow, be thou my diadem !<br>Poverty love I, -- for 't is pride !<br>My rugged home winds beat upon;<br>And even that awful Statue wan<br>Aye seated silent by my side. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love the woe that proves me strong;<br>That shadow of fate which all ye throng,<br>O ye to whom high hearts aye bow, --<br>Faith, Virtue veiled, stern Dignity,<br>And thou, proud Exile, Liberty,<br>And, nobler yet, Devotion, thou! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love this islet lonely, bold, --<br>Jersey, whereover England's old<br>Free banner doth the storm-blast brave;<br>Yon darkling ocean's ebb and flow,<br>Its vessels, each a wandering plough,<br>Whose mystic furrow is the wave. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love thy gull, with snowy wing<br>In pearls to the wind blithe scattering,<br>O ocean vast, thy sunny spray;<br>Who darts beneath hugh billows gaping,<br>Soon from those monstrous throats escaping<br>As a soul from sorrow flits away! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love the rock, -- how solemn, stern !<br>Thence hearkening aye the plaint eterne<br>On the wild air around me shed,<br>Ever the sullen night outpours,<br>Of waves that sob on sombre shores,<br>Of mothers mourning children dead!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+Hugo">Victor Hugo</a><div class=q>
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Since the crime's crowned with despotism,
Since all most upright souls are smitten,
Since proudest souls are bowed for shame,
Since on the walls in lines of flame
My country's dark dishonour's written; 

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