The seventh day in the wind's month, ten years gone [_Ant._ 13. Since heaven-espousing earth Gave the Republic birth, The mightiest soul put mortal raiment on 500 That came forth singing ever in man's ears Of all souls with us, and through all these years Rings yet the lordliest, waxen yet more strong, That on our souls hath shed itself in song, Poured forth itself like rain On souls like springing grain That with its procreant beams and showers were fed For living wine and sacramental bread; Given all itself as air gives life and light, Utterly, as of right; 510 The goodliest gift our age hath given, to be Ours, while the sun gives glory to the sea. Our Father and Master and Lord, [_Ep._ 13. Who hast thy song for sword, For staff thy spirit, and our hearts for throne: As in past years of wrong, Take now my subject song, To no crowned head 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_