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'Sisters the wave is freshest in the ray	A
Of the young morning the reapers are asleep	B
The river bank is lonely come away	A
The early murmurs of old Memphis creep	B
Faint on my ear and here unseen we stray	A
Deep in the covert of the grove withdrawn	C
Save by the dewy eye glance of the dawn	C
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'Within my father's palace fair to see	D
Shine all the Arts but oh this river side	E
Pranked with gay flowers is dearer far to me	D
Than gold and porphyry vases bright and wide	E
How glad in heaven the song bird carols free	D
Sweeter these zephyrs float than all the showers	F
Of costly odors in our royal bowers	F
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'The sky is pure the sparkling stream is clear	G
Unloose your zones my maidens and fling down	H
To float awhile upon these bushes near	G
Your blue transparent robes take off my crown	H
And take away my jealous veil for here	I
To day we shall be joyous while we lave	J
Our limbs amid the murmur of the wave	J
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'Hasten but through the fleecy mists of morn	K
What do I see Look ye along the stream	L
Nay timid maidens we must not return	M
Coursing along the current it would seem	L
An ancient palm tree to the deep sea borne	K
That from the distant wilderness proceeds	N
Downwards to view our wondrous Pyramids	O
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'But stay if I may surely trust mine eye	P
It is the bark of Hermes or the shell	Q
Of Iris wafted gently to the sighs	R
Of the light breeze along the rippling swell	Q
But no it is a skiff where sweetly lies	R
An infant slumbering and his peaceful rest	S
Looks as if pillowed on his mother's breast	S
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'He sleeps oh see his little floating bed	T
Swims on the mighty river's fickle flow	U
A white dove's nest and there at hazard led	T
By the faint winds and wandering to and fro	U
The cot comes down beneath his quiet head	T
The gulfs are moving and each threatening wave	J
Appears to rock the child upon a grave	J
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'He wakes ah maids of Memphis haste oh haste	V
He cries alas What mother could confide	E
Her offspring to the wild and watery waste	V
He stretches out his arms the rippling tide	E
Murmurs around him where all rudely placed	V
He rests but with a few frail reeds beneath	W
Between such helpless innocence and death	X
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'Oh take him up Perchance he is of those	Y
Dark sons of Israel whom my sire proscribes	Z
Ah cruel was the mandate that arose	Y
Against most guiltless of the stranger tribes	Z
Poor child my heart is yearning for his woes	Y
I would I were his mother but I'll give	A2
If not his birth at least the claim to live '	-
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Thus Iphis spoke the royal hope and pride	E
Of a great monarch while her damsels nigh	P
Wandered along the Nile's meandering side	E
And these diminished beauties standing by	P
The trembling mother watching with eyes wide	E
Their graceful mistress admired her as stood	B2
More lovely than the genius of the flood	C2
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The waters broken by her delicate feet	D2
Receive the eager wader as alone	E2
By gentlest pity led she strives to meet	D2
The wakened babe and see the prize is won	F2
She holds the weeping burden with a sweet	D2
And virgin glow of pride upon her brow	G2
That knew no flush save modesty's till now	G2
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Opening with cautious hands the reedy couch	H2
She brought the rescued infant slowly out	I2
Beyond the humid sands at her approach	J2
Her curious maidens hurried round about	I2
To kiss the new born brow with gentlest touch	K2
Greeting the child with smiles and bending nigh	P
Their faces o'er his large astonished eye	P
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Haste thou who from afar in doubt and fear	G
Dost watch with straining eyes the fated boy	L2
The loved of heaven come like a stranger near	G
And clasp young Moses with maternal joy	L2
Nor fear the speechless transport and the tear	M2
Will e'er betray thy fond and hidden claim	N2
For Iphis knows not yet a mother's name	N2
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With a glad heart and a triumphal face	O2
The princess to the haughty Pharaoh led	T
The humble infant of a hated race	O2
Bathed with the bitter tears a parent shed	T
While loudly pealing round the holy place	O2
Of Heaven's white Throne the voice of angel choirs	P2
Intoned the theme of their undying lyres	P2
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'No longer mourn thy pilgrimage below	U
O Jacob let thy tears no longer swell	Q
The torrent of the Egyptian river Lo	U
Soon on the Jordan's banks thy tents shall dwell	Q
And Goshen shall behold thy people go	U
Despite the power of Egypt's law and brand	Q2
From their sad thrall to Canaan's promised land	Q2
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'The King of Plagues the Chosen of Sinai	P
Is he that o'er the rushing waters driven	F2
A vigorous hand hath rescued for the sky	P
Ye whose proud hearts disown the ways of heaven	F2
Attend be humble for its power is nigh	P
Israel a cradle shall redeem thy worth	R2
A Cradle yet shall save the widespread earth '	-

Victor Marie Hugo

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