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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506954" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After Waterloo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the field of Waterloo we made Napoleon rue<br>That ever out of Elba he decided for to come,<br>For we finished him that day, and he had to run away,<br>And yield himself to Maitland on the Billy-ruffium.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">`Twas a stubborn fight, no doubt, and the fortune wheeled about,<br>And the brave Mossoos kept coming most uncomfortable near,<br>And says Wellington the hero, as his hopes went down to zero,<br>`I wish to God that Blooker or the night was only here!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Blooker came at length, and we broke Napoleon's strength,<br>And the flower of his army--that's the old Imperial Guard -<br>They made a final sally, but they found they could not rally,<br>And at last they broke and fled, after fighting bitter hard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Napoleon he had thought, when a British ship he sought,<br>And gave himself uncalled-for, in a manner, you might say,<br>He'd be treated like a king with the best of every thing,<br>And maybe have a palace for to live in every day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was treated very well, as became a noble swell,<br>But we couldn't leave him loose, not in Europe anywhere,<br>For we knew he would be making some gigantic undertaking,<br>While the trustful British lion was reposing in his lair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We tried him once before near the European shore,<br>Having planted him in Elba, where he promised to remain,<br>But when he saw his chance, why, he bolted off to France,<br>And he made a lot of trouble--but it wouldn't do again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says the Prince to him, `You know, far away you'll have to go,<br>To a pleasant little island off the coast of Africay,<br>Where they tell me that the view of the ocean deep and blue,<br>Is remarkable extensive, and it's there you'll have to stay.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Napoleon wiped his eye, and he wished the Prince good-bye,<br>And being stony-broke, made the best of it he could,<br>And they kept him snugly pensioned, where his Royal Highness<br>mentioned,<br>And Napoleon Boneyparty is provided for for good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now of that I don't complain, but I ask and ask in vain,<br>Why me, a British soldier, as has lost a useful arm<br>Through fighting of the foe, when the trumpets ceased to blow,<br>Should be forced to feed the pigs on a little Surrey farm,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While him as fought with us, and created such a fuss,<br>And in the whole of Europe did a mighty deal of harm,<br>Should be kept upon a rock, like a precious fighting cock,<br>And be found in beer and baccy, which would suit me to a charm?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Fuller+Murray">Robert Fuller Murray</a><div class=q>
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That ever out of Elba he decided for to come,
For we finished him that day, and he had to run away,
And yield himself to Maitland on the Billy-ruffium.

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