Friday 9 September 2011

1831 - A hunchback whale of a tale

Dating from the year 1831
Is a great novel by Victor Hugo
And it's called 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'
One description from it still haunts me so
And that's the view of Paris seen as though
You were scanning the cityscape from up
The cathedral, four hundred years ago
That, and the tragic end when she's strung up
That's Esmeralda, despite being shut up
For her own safety in the tower by shunned
King Kong / Elephant Man / Quasimodo
She didn't stab Captain Phoebus, but stop
The mad mob you could not. The gypsy scum
Must be taught a lesson. This girl must go

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