On Napoleon's Escape From Elba

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Title:     On Napoleon's Escape From Elba
Author: Lord Byron [More Titles by Byron]

On Napoleon's Escape from Elba.[1]

ONCE fairly set out on his party of pleasure,
Taking towns at his liking, and crowns at his leisure,
From Elba to Lyons and Paris he goes,
Making balls for the ladies, and bows to his foes.

March 27, 1815.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] [It may be taken for granted that the "source" of this epigram was a paragraph in the _Morning Chronicle_ of March 27, 1815: "In the _Moniteur_ of Thursday we find the Emperor's own account of his _jaunt_ from the Island of Elba to the palace of the Thuilleries. It seems certainly more like a jaunt of pleasure than the progress of an invader through a country to be gained."]

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Lord Byron's poem: On Napoleon's Escape From Elba

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