Toussaint Louverture

Un de mes personnages historiques préférés par le grand poète William Woodsworth :

 To Toussaint L’Ouverture

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men !

Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough

Within thy hearing, or thy head be now

Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den;

O miserable Chieftain ! Where and when

Wilt thou find patience ? Yet die not, do thou

Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow :

Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,

Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind

Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and

 skies;

There's not a breathing of the common wind

That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;

Thy friends and exultations, agonies

And love, and man's unconquerable mind.