Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — Victor Hugo’s Poetic Plea. [ARTICLE]

Victor Hugo’s Poetic Plea.

The story is told that Victor Hugo, concerning himself on behalf one condemned, called on King Louis Philippe to intercede for the unfortunate man. It was a second compassionate effort of the poet’s, but the hour was late and the monarch, being now retired to bed, could not be seen. Not to be wholly balked of his purpose, Hugo left a plea, in suddenly improvised verse, on the table, to meet the King’s eye in the morning. There had been a recent death in the royal family of an idolized daughter, and a birth, too, as well. Of these incidents the poet availed himself in his quatrain, which very closely rendered runs as follows: By your kmt angel, dove-like from you flown, By this swoet royal babe, fair, fragile reed, Mercy once more 1 Be mercy, mercy shown 1 In the tomb’s name, and cradle’s both I plead. The poet’s plea availed. Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility relieved by taking Mensman’s Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, force-generating and life-sus-taining properties; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork, or acute diseaso; particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York.