<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396145" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Napoleon's Farewell (From The French)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>Farewell to the Land where the gloom of my Glory<br>Arose and o'ershadow'd the earth with her name--<br>She abandons me now--but the page of her story,<br>The brightest or blackest, is fill'd with my fame.<br>I have warr'd with a world which vanquish'd me only<br>When the meteor of conquest allured me too far;<br>I have coped with the nations which dread me thus lonely,<br>The last single Captive to millions in war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>Farewell to thee, France! when thy diadem crown'd me,<br>I made thee the gem and the wonder of earth,<br>But thy weakness decrees I should leave as I found thee,<br>Decay'd in thy glory, and sunk in thy worth.<br>Oh! for the veteran hearts that were wasted<br>In strife with the storm, when their battles were won<br>Then the Eagle, whose gaze in that moment was lasted,<br>Had still soar'd with eyes fix'd on victory's sun!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>Farewell to thee, France!--but when Liberty rallies<br>Once more in thy regions, remember me then,<br>The violet still grows in the depth of thy valleys;<br>Though wither'd, thy tear will unfold it<br>Yet, yet, I may baffle the hosts that sur­round us,<br>And yet may thy heart leap awake to my voice<br>There are links which must break in the chain that has bound us,<br>Then turn thee and call on the Chief of thy choice!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396145" data-title="Napoleon's Farewell (From The French) de Byron" data-description="I. Farewell to the Land where the gloom of my Glory Arose and o'ershadow'd the earth with her name-- She abandons me now--but the page of her story, The brightest or blackest, is fill'd with my fame. I have warr'd with a world which vanquish'd me ..."></div> </div> </div>

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