Mazeppa by Victor Hugo

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MAZEPPA by Victor Hugo
     ("Ainsi, lorsqu'un mortel!")

     {XXXIV., May, 1828.}

     As when a mortalâ€"Genius' prize, alack!
     Is, living, bound upon thy fatal back,
         Thou reinless racing steed!
     In vain he writhes, mere cloud upon a star,
     Thou bearest him as went Mazeppa, far
         Out of the flow'ry mead,â€"
     Soâ€"though thou speed'st implacable, (like him,
     Spent, pallid, torn, bruised, weary, sore and dim,
         As if each stride the nearer bring
     Him to the grave)â€"when comes the time,
     After the fall, he risesâ€"KING!

     H.L. WILLIAMS

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