Épilogue

This is a short but pregnant récital of what the poet meant to effect in Lazare.

Page 104. 1. 29. Et que^ moins en colère. As well as pity, Barbier had derived from the social commotions in France a deep-rooted dread of new révolutions.

11. 54-6. arracher . . . chair : a bold tentative rime, which requires, in spite of the comma, a slurred liaison between arracher and autant.

Page 105. 1. 72. Quelque monde meilleur. The last four verses show how Barbier escaped from the horns of the dilemma in which his génération desperately struggled : either evil is appointed by God, and in this case impossible to lessen as well as to shorten, hence let us shut our eyes and pray ; or men can lessen, shorten, and in course of time annihilate evil, as Pierre Leroux and many in his time professed, and then this world hère below sufficeth to limit our hopes as well as our actions. i.

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