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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455778" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Napoleon III</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His silent spirit from the place<br>Slid forth unseen; amid the throng<br>Of those whose love outlived disgrace,<br>Whose fealty to the last was strong.<br>'Midst homage, 'neath Fate's adverse reign,<br>Paid to the star shorn of its rays,<br>How passed the Exile? Lingering fain,<br>As never once in prouder days?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Mother and the Child were there,<br>Discrowned and disinherited!<br>No hand henceforth to right the heir;<br>New griefs to bow the golden head.<br>How passed Napoleon? Prizing more,<br>Old fame in camp and council won<br>Or fearless England's aegis, o'er<br>The future of her ally's son?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gate of that World we know not yet,<br>What thou beheld'st who may proclaim!<br>Were spirit-ranks, in order set,<br>Haunting thy portals, as he came,<br>With voices murmuring, “Our life torch,<br>Unspent, was quenched at his behest”?<br>Did bygone princes fill the porch,<br>Bourbon, and Valois, and the rest?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How passed the soldier? Cold and stern,<br>'Mid weaponless reproachful ghosts,<br>As when he led them forth to learn<br>How fight the hardy German hosts?<br>How passed the Emperor where THEY gazed,<br>Once wearers of the ancient crown?<br>As one who knew its lustre blazed<br>The brighter ere he laid it down?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How passed he? brighter grows the dream!<br>Past yon accusing spirit-band,<br>Beyond the scornful Old Règime,<br>Another group of watchers stand!<br>Those hands are stretched to greet him now<br>That once Charlemagne's proud sceptre won;<br>While hastes Hortense with beaming brow,<br>No longer banished from her son!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Hannay+Foott">Mary Hannay Foott</a><div class=q>
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Slid forth unseen; amid the throng
Of those whose love outlived disgrace,
Whose fealty to the last was strong.
'Midst homage, 'neath Fate's adverse reign,
Paid to the star shorn of its rays,
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