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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534051" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Giant In Glee</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ho, warriors! I was reared in the land of the Gauls;<br>O'er the Rhine my ancestors came bounding like balls<br>Of the snow at the Pole, where, a babe, I was bathed<br>Ere in bear and in walrus-skin I was enswathed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then my father was strong, whom the years lowly bow,--<br>A bison could wallow in the grooves of his brow.<br>He is weak, very old--he can scarcely uptear<br>A young pine-tree for staff since his legs cease to bear;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But here's to replace him!--I can toy with his axe;<br>As I sit on the hill my feet swing in the flax,<br>And my knee caps the boulders and troubles the trees.<br>How they shiver, yea, quake if I happen to sneeze!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was still but a springald when, cleaving the Alps,<br>I brushed snowy periwigs off granitic scalps,<br>And my head, o'er the pinnacles, stopped the fleet clouds,<br>Where I captured the eagles and caged them by crowds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were tempests! I blew them back into their source!<br>And put out their lightnings! More than once in a course,<br>Through the ocean I went wading after the whale,<br>And stirred up the bottom as did never a gale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fond of rambling, I hunted the shark 'long the beach,<br>And no osprey in ether soared out of my reach;<br>And the bear that I pinched 'twixt my finger and thumb,<br>Like the lynx and the wolf, perished harmless and dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But these pleasures of childhood have lost all their zest;<br>It is warfare and carnage that now I love best:<br>The sounds that I wish to awaken and hear<br>Are the cheers raised by courage, the shrieks due to fear;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the riot of flames, ruin, smoke, steel and blood,<br>Announces an army rolls along as a flood,<br>Which I follow, to harry the clamorous ranks,<br>Sharp-goading the laggards and pressing the flanks,<br>Till, a thresher 'mid ripest of corn, up I stand<br>With an oak for a flail in my unflagging hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rise the groans! rise the screams! on my feet fall vain tears<br>As the roar of my laughter redoubles their fears.<br>I am naked. At armor of steel I should joke--<br>True, I'm helmed--a brass pot you could draw with ten yoke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I look for no ladder to invade the king's hall--<br>I stride o'er the ramparts, and down the walls fall,<br>Till choked are the ditches with the stones, dead and quick,<br>Whilst the flagstaff I use 'midst my teeth as a pick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, when cometh my turn to succumb like my prey,<br>May brave men my body snatch away from th' array<br>Of the crows--may they heap on the rocks till they loom<br>Like a mountain, befitting a colossus' tomb!</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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O'er the Rhine my ancestors came bounding like balls
Of the snow at the Pole, where, a babe, I was bathed
Ere in bear and in walrus-skin I was enswathed.

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