--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lambourne, Alfred collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 11 published: 1918-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Lambourne, Alfred, "To Napoleon Bonaparte," *Improvement Era* 21, no. 11 (September 1918): 983.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera21011unse start_page: 983 end_page: 983 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse publication_year: 1918 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # To Napoleon Bonaparte TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE | Great one, whose sun at Ansterlitz arose And at Saint Helena bade thee adieu, [ The "Man of Destiny" in Freedom's pose, The modern Sphynx who lost at Waterloo, | | Dost see, Napoleon, this lust of power [ As with the Conquerors in other dawns? The streams of blood that flow this troubled hour, | ! Man in the "Game of War" the living pawns? I Yea, kings and nations look on changing fates, I Tossed is the ball of conquest to and fro I Dim chaos reigns amidst a crash of states, I And round the earth is felt the awful throe ! Vast Captain, England, who did exile thee, | ! Clasps hands with France that all mankind are free ! | 1 Alfred Lambourne | "" • i iiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiu »i i »«"' i»"R Iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i i