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Nuggets and Dust: panned out in California by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
An Inscription
For a Statue of Napoleon
A conqueror as provident as brave,
He robbed the cradle to supply the grave.
His reign laid quantities of human dust:
He fell upon the just and the unjust.
Book: Nuggets and Dust: panned out in California by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
(1842 - 1914/American)   
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