Poem: Napoleon “The Little” by Victor Hugo

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Napoleon “The Little”

(“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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