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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.

Written by

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1842-1914 / American

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