At The Tomb Of Napoleon Before The Elections In America--November, 1912

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Title:     At The Tomb Of Napoleon Before The Elections In America--November, 1912
Author: Alan Seeger [More Titles by Seeger]

I stood beside his sepulchre whose fame,
Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast,
Now glows far off as storm-clouds overpast
Glow in the sunset flushed with glorious flame.
Has Nature marred his mould? Can Art acclaim
No hero now, no man with whom men side
As with their hearts' high needs personified?
There are will say, One such our lips could name;
Columbia gave him birth. Him Genius most
Gifted to rule. Against the world's great man
Lift their low calumny and sneering cries
The Pharisaic multitude, the host
Of piddling slanderers whose little eyes
Know not what greatness is and never can.

[The end]
Alan Seeger's poem: At The Tomb Of Napoleon Before The Elections In America--November, 1912

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