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Tomb of Napoleon, 1913

Identifier: shrinesoldnewoth00farmuoft (find matches)

Title: Shrines old and new, and other poems

Year: 1913 (1910s)

Authors: Farmer, Thomas Devey Jermyn

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Publisher: Toronto W. Briggs

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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neath thy firm con-trol Truth was the mirror of thy jeering soul, The mouthpiece of thy mocking persiflage. O English journalist and tribune great!Critic, Stage Manager and Diplomat!In birth tho not in life aristocrat. A cleaner Britain we may owe to thee, Altho in thy last years expatriate Thou madst thy home neath skies of Italy. Hyeres, France, January 20, 1912. ^17 SHRINES OLD AND NEW NAPOLEONS TOMB. In shadowd Dome of a Parisian pile,The spandreld Invalides, I saw beneathA Tomb encircled by a laurel wreathWorked in mosaic. From Helenas isleHad come the dust of him who for a while Had ruled the nations, whose commanding breathHad sent forth pillage, devastation, death.But he had died a poor, forlorn exile:O Peerless Corsican! Thy rise, thy fall,Thy genius ruling for a space the world.Thine end—-a prisoner on a foreign strand,All point a moral to the great, the small: Who climbs too high to lowest depth is hurld,Unchecked Ambition rests on shifting sand. Paris, Dec. i, 1911. 238

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I saw beneath A tomb encircled by a laurel wreath,Worked in mosaic .... (See page 238.) WESTMINSTER ABBEY WESTMINSTER ABBEY. When worldy pleasure satiates, and pallsThe noise and turmoil of the outer life,The din of commerce, and the sound of strife,Thy solemn grandeur draws me to thy walls.Thy wondrous history inspiring calls.Here I may contemplative learn to traceThe by-gone splendor of our glorious race;As gently oer each marble bust there fallsThine ancient windows soft illuminings. Whose time is oer, but all that fame can giveIs theirs—tho dead thou makest them to live.The consecration of thy cloister bringsA sweeter rest to heroes, bards, and kings.Times conqueror! and fames restorative! London, Eng., Sept. 20, 1911. 241 SHRINES OLD AND NEW THE WATER LILY. I saw a water lily in her waxen dressOf virgin white tmsullied loveliness,Serenely floating near a river bank.Beneath were sedge and ooze decayd and dank,And tangled mass of rush and root and weed,Where slimy reptiles live a

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