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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118422" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Last Words. Napoleon and Wellington</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">NAPOLEON.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it this, then, O world-warrior,<br>That, exulting, through the folds<br>Of the dark and cloudy barrier<br>Thine enfranchised eye beholds?<br>Is, when blessed hands relieve thee<br>From the gross and mortal clay,<br>This the heaven that should receive thee?<br>‘Tête d’armée.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the final link is breaking,<br>Of the fierce, corroding chain,<br>And the ships, their watch forsaking,<br>Bid the seas no more detain,<br>Whither is it, freed and risen,<br>The pure spirit seeks away,<br>Quits for what the weary prison?<br>‘Tête d’armée.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doubtless angels, hovering o’er thee<br>In thine exile’s sad abode,<br>Marshalled even now before thee,<br>Move upon that chosen road!<br>Thither they, ere friends have laid thee<br>Where sad willows o’er thee play,<br>Shall already have conveyed thee!<br>‘Tête d’armée.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall great captains, foiled and broken,<br>Hear from thee on each great day,<br>At the crisis, a word spoken<br>Word that battles still obey<br>‘Cuirassiers here, here those cannon;<br>Quick, those squadrons, up-away!<br>‘To the charge, on as one man, on!’<br>‘Tête d’armée.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Yes, too true, alas! while, sated<br>Of the wars so slow to cease,<br>Nations, once that scorned and hated,<br>Would to Wisdom turn, and Peace;<br>Thy dire impulse still obeying,<br>Fevered youths, as in the old day,<br>In their hearts still find thee saying,<br>‘Tête d’armée.’)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, poor soul! Or do I view thee,<br>From earth’s battle-fields withheld,<br>In a dream, assembling to thee<br>Troops that quell not, nor are quelled,<br>Breaking airy lines, defeating<br>Limbo-kings, and, as to-day,<br>Idly to all time repeating<br>‘Tête d’armée.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WELLINGTON.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what the words, that with his failing breath<br>Did England hear her aged soldier say?<br>I know not. Yielding tranquilly to death,<br>With no proud speech, no boast, he passed away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not stirring words, nor gallant deeds alone,<br>Plain patient work fulfilled that length of life;<br>Duty, not glory Service, not a throne,<br>Inspired his effort, set for him the strife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore just Fortune, with one hasty blow,<br>Spurning her minion, Glory’s, Victory’s lord,<br>Gave all to him that was content to know,<br>In service done its own supreme reward.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words he said, if haply words there were,<br>When full of years and works he passed away.<br>Most naturally might, methinks, refer<br>To some poor humble business of to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘That humble simple duty of the day<br>Perform,’ he bids; ‘ask not if small or great:<br>Serve in thy post; be faithful, and obey;<br>Who serves her truly, sometimes saves the State.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q>
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