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Napoleon "The Little."

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Title:     Napoleon "The Little."
Author: Victor Hugo [More Titles by Hugo]

_("Ah! tu finiras bien par hurler!")_

[Bk. III. ii., Jersey, August, 1852.]


How well I knew this stealthy wolf would howl,
When in the eagle talons ta'en in air!
Aglow, I snatched thee from thy prey--thou fowl--
I held thee, abject conqueror, just where
All see the stigma of a fitting name
As deeply red as deeply black thy shame!
And though thy matchless impudence may frame
Some mask of seeming courage--spite thy sneer,
And thou assurest sloth and skunk: "It does not smart!"
Thou feel'st it burning, in and in,--and fear
None will forget it till shall fall the deadly dart!








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Victor Hugo's poem: Napoleon "The Little."

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