. Poems, lyrics, songs and sonnets. ESIDE the lighthouse of Antibes Istand,And pazing seaward, faintly can discernThe Isle of Corsica ;—fi-om whichwe learnGreat men may prow on smallest spet-ks of land :From that lone spot, that rocky, rugged strand, Napoleon came, imperious and stem,JThe scourge of peoples and the dread of kings,He dealt out vengeance with unsparing hand;Yet, as the storm bears healing on its he, mithinking, lifted meaner things,—Poor j)uny souls,—to think and act like men ; Whilst he, their idol, was the first to fall :O righteous sacrifice ! Not knowing when To sto

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. Poems, lyrics, songs and sonnets. ESIDE the lighthouse of Antibes Istand,And pazing seaward, faintly can discernThe Isle of Corsica ;—fi-om whichwe learnGreat men may prow on smallest spet-ks of land :From that lone spot, that rocky, rugged strand, Napoleon came, imperious and stem,JThe scourge of peoples and the dread of kings,He dealt out vengeance with unsparing hand;Yet, as the storm bears healing on its he, mithinking, lifted meaner things,—Poor j)uny souls,—to think and act like men ; Whilst he, their idol, was the first to fall :O righteous sacrifice ! Not knowing when To stop, he strove to bind, and found himselfin thrall. /^^C5:j£Z3\. NAPOLEONIC.

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