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Now for this Twentieth splendid day of Spring, / All in a tale, -- sun, wind, sky, earth and sea, -- / To bid man, "Up, be doing! " Mount the stair, / Monsieur Léonce Miranda mounts so brisk, / And look -- ere his elastic foot arrive -- / Your longest, far and wide, o'er fronting space. / Yon white streak -- Havre lighthouse! Name and name, / How the mind runs from each to each relay, / Town after town, till Paris' self be touched, / Superlatively big with life and death / To all the world, that very day perhaps! / He who stepped out upon the platform here, / Pinnacled over the expanse, gave thought / Neither to Rouher nor Ollivier, Roon / Nor Bismarck, Emperor nor King, but just / To steeple, church, and shrine, The Ravissante!