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Victor Hugo.

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He set the trumpet to his lips, and lo!     The clash of waves, the roar of winds that blow,     The strife and stress of Nature's warring things,     Rose like a storm-cloud, upon angry wings.     He set the reed-pipe to his lips, and lo!     The wreck of landscape took a rosy glow,     And Life, and Love, and gladness that Love brings     Laughed in the music, like a child that sings.     Master of each, Arch-Master! We that still     Wait in the verge and outskirt of the Hill     Look upward lonely--lonely to the height     Where thou has climbed, for ever, out of sight!

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