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Napoleon "The Little."

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("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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