Poem by Ambrose Gwinnett 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.

1. A Builder
2. Adair Welcker, Poet
3. Convalescent
4. Polyphemus
5. The Valley of Dry Bones

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