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Yet hadst thou , like Epaminondas , died Upon thy last of fields , the hero ' s fall Had veiPd the statesman ' s guile , the despot ' s pride , The man ' s vain coldness , in one dazzling pall Of beautiful oblivion ; pilgrims ften Had gone to kiss the spot thy blood bad bath'd , Deeming it b » dlyi-and the lclst of men Knelt on the tUrf the dying thunder seathU
The Lucifer pfEai ^ h W fellen in vain , And taught the world no wisdom i—Now we scan Upon Napoleon ' s tomb tjie prophet strain , MAN ' S SPOILER YEf SHALL BB THE SPOIL , OF MAN .
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768 Character of Napoleon Bonaparte .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 768, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/40/
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