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Plein Ciel

poem by Hugo

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In Victor Hugo: Exile (1851–70) of Victor Hugo
…of “Le Satyre”; and “Plein Ciel” proclaims, through utopian prediction of men’s conquest of the air, the poet’s conviction of indefinite progress toward the final unity of science with moral awareness.
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