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The Orientales - Autumn leaves
"That century was two years old. Rome replaced Sparta,
Already, Napoleon was piercing under Bonaparte,
And from the first consul, already, by hand,
The emperor's forehead broke the narrow mask.
So, in Besançon, an old Spanish town,
Threw like the seed at the whim of the flying air,
Naked from Breton and Lorraine's blood at the same time
A child without colour, gazeless and voiceless;
As debilitated as he was, as well as a chimera,
Abandoned of all except his mother,
And that his hand played like a frail reed
At the same time, it makes its beer and cradle.
That child whose life was erased from his book,
And who didn't even have a tomorrow to live,
It's me. -"
Victor Hugo.
