id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-244 chapter-244 .txt text/plain 333 32 91 O star of France, O star of France, The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame, Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long, Beseems to-day a wreck driven by the gale, a mastless hulk, Dim smitten star, Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes, Star panting oer a land of death, heroic land, yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke thee, In that amid thy many faults thou ever aimedst highly, In that thou surely wakedst weeping from thy druggd sleep, In that alone among thy sisters thou, giantess, didst rend the ones The spear thrust in thy side. O star! O ship of France, beat back and baffled long! Sure as the ship of all, the Earth itself, So thee O ship of France! Finishd the days, the clouds dispeld Again thy star O France, fair lustrous star, ./cache/chapter-244.txt ./txt/chapter-244.txt