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NO ASSASSINATION by Victor Hugo
     ("Laissons le glaive à Rome.")

     {Bk. III. xvi., October, 1852.}
     Pray Rome put up her poniard!
       And Sparta sheathe the sword;
     Be none too prompt to punish,
       And cast indignant word!
     Bear back your spectral Brutus
       From robber Bonaparte;
     Time rarely will refute us
       Who doom the hateful heart.

     Ye shall be o'ercontented,
       My banished mates from home,
     But be no rashness vented
       Ere time for joy shall come.
     No crime can outspeed Justice,
       Who, resting, seems delayed—
     Full faith accord the angel
       Who points the patient blade.

     The traitor still may nestle
       In balmy bed of state,
     But mark the Warder, watching
       His guardsman at his gate.
     He wears the crown, a monarch—
       Of knaves and stony hearts;
     But though they're blessed by Senates,
       None can escape the darts!

     Though shored by spear and crozier,
       All know the arrant cheat,
     And shun the square of pavement
       Uncertain at his feet!
     Yea, spare the wretch, each brooding
       And secret-leaguers' chief,
     And make no pistol-target
       Of stars upon the thief.

     The knell of God strikes seldom
       But in the aptest hour;
     And when the life is sweetest,
       The worm will feel His power!

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