When I was a young girl in high...

When I was a young girl in high school, my mother recited to me some lines from one of Victor Hugo's poems. One translation of the lines is as follows:

Be like a bird that,
pausing in its flight,
Tarries for a moment
on a bough too slight;
And, feeling that it bends beneath it,
Sings—,
Knowing that it hath wings.

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