made humble but thine own;
That on thy day of worldly birth
Gives thanks for all thou hast given past thanks of all on earth. 520

* * * * *

NOTES

_v._ 33. _Odes et Ballades_, 1822-1824.

57. _Les Orientales_, 1829.

69. _Les Feuilles d'Automne_, 1831.

71. _Les Chants du Crepuscule_, 1835.

73. _Les Voix Interieures_, 1837.

81. _Les Rayons et les Ombres_, 1840.

101. _Hernani_, 1830.

105. _Marion de Lorme_, 1831.

109. _Le Roi s'amuse_, 1832.

113. _Lucrece Borgia_, 1833.

121. _Marie Tudor_, 1835.

127. _Angelo, Tyran de Padoue_, 1835.

129. _La Esmeralda_, 1836.

133. _Ruy Blas_, 1838.

137. _Les Burgraves_, 1842.

153. _Cromwell_, 1827: _Etude sur Mirabeau_, 1834 (_Litterature
et Philosophie melees_, 1819-1834).

177. _Han d'Islande_, 1823. _Bug-Jargal_, 1826.

182. _Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne_, 1829: _Claude Gueux_, 1834.

193. _Notre-Dame de Paris_, 1831.

205. _Le Rhin_, 1845.

216. _Napoleon le Petit_, 1852. _Chatiments_, 1853. _Histoire
d'un Crime_, 1877. In this place I must take occasion to
relieve my conscience from a sense of duty unfulfilled so
long as I for one have not uttered my own poor private
protest--worthless and weightless though it may seem, if
cast as a grain into the scale of public opinion--against
a projected insult at once to contemporary France and to
the present only less than to past generations of
Englishmen.

_On the proposed desecration of Westminster Abbey
by the erection of a monument to
the son of Napoleon III_

"Let us go hence." From the inmost shrine of grace
Where England holds the elect of all her dead
There comes a word like one of old time said
By gods of old cast out. Here is no place
At once for these and one of poisonous race.
Let each rise up from his dishallowed bed
And pass forth silent. Each divine veiled head
Shall speak in silence with averted face.
"Scorn everlasting and eternal shame
Eat out the rotting record of his name
Who had the glory of all these graves in trust
And turned it to a hissing. His offence
Makes havoc of the