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Show Strength In Advancing Age. To Hugo tho years thnt bend and weaken and wrinkle the genius of the master seem but to bring fresh strength and energy and beauty. He ages like the lions. His brow, seamed with august furrows, rises under a mane larger, thicker, more bristling and more disheveled thnn ever before. His yellow eyes are like suns within caverns: when he roars, tho other animals ani-mals are silent Or, changing the uam-parlfcon, uam-parlfcon, one might liken him to an oak that domlnntes tho forest. Its enormous wrinkled trunk bursting Into leaf, Its branches mighty as trees. Its deep reaching rootB drink of tho sap of the heart of tho earth, Its head almost touches heaven In Its vast foliage tho stars Bhlne at night, the birds sing at dawn. It braves the sun, the tompest of the wind, tho thunder and the rain. The very scars of tho thunderbolt have added to Its beauty something formidable formid-able and superb. Qautler's "Portrait of Victor Hugo." |