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Napoleon's Farewell

By George Gordon, Lord ByronSource: George Gordon, Lord Byron - PoetryDB (Public Domain)204 words

Farewell to the Land, where the gloom of my Glory

Arose and o'ershadowed the earth with her name--

She abandons me now--but the page of her story,

The brightest or blackest, is filled with my fame.

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