Ce que dir la bouche d'ombre?

Victor Hugo sings:

"You must know that everything has its law, its goal, its
road;
That from the star to the atom, immensity listens
to itself;
That everything has a consciousness inside the
creation;
. . .
Everything speaks;
The air which passes, the seabird which sails;
Each blade of grass, flower, germ and element.
Did you imagine the universe differently?
...
Everything in the universe says something to someone;
One thought fills with superb tumult.
God didn't make any sound without mixing a verb in it;
Everything speaks.
And now, man, do you know why everything speaks?
Listen.
It is because wind, waves, flames, trees, reeds, rocks ---
Everything is alive."

--- Translated from the French. Victor Hugo, "Ce que dir la bouche
d'ombre"
(What says the shadow's mouth) in Les contemplations,
Paris: Flammarion, 1995, pp. 361-63.

More translations of Monsieur Victor Hugo's poems at
http://www.fullbooks.com/Poemsx4055.html

Part Two of these translations opens with Sections 7 - 11 of "The Scourge of Heaven", written in 1828 and published in Les Orientales in 1829. On one level of meaning it is about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in ancient Israel; but why, I wonder, does it dwell on "twin towers"? Could it have been a prophecy of the attack on New York City's twin towers in 2001?

Victor Hugo does indeed seem to have had phantic talents following those spiritist seances during his exile on the Channel Islands, Jersey and Guernsey, discussed in Conversations with Eternity. http://www.gavroche.org/vhugo/flamel.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo