Shall cease of language to assume a tone Imperative, that suits a Pope alone; When Authors, without bias, Truth shall woo, And having won, support her nobly too; When Poland shall be integral and free; Then Saints may the Millennium hope to see. NAPOLEON. "In none of his arrangements did Napoleon think of securing to his cause the attachment of nations. Astonishment, awe, and force were his weapons, and his own great name the chosen pillar of his throne."— CHANNING. WHAT has he done, great man, for France, Has he her mind sought to advance, To cherish aught but lust of strife? The "fire-eyed maid of smoking war His Goddess was, and to her car Yoked the foul fiends that trouble life. Millions on battle-field lay gory, That France might cover'd be with glory. Shaker of many an o'er-rank state, He could destroy but not create: Though Monarchs in his presence quail'd,— No institutions free he gave To Nations, none sought he to save By neighbour-tyrants when assail'd. Chivalrous aid to suffering man Was no part of his selfish plan. His power that soon colossal grew Through fear, opinion overthrew, When arm'd its terrors to oppose: It had not in the social frame Permanent place, since none became Wiser or happier as it rose: To renovated states allied It might have stood, and worlds defied. Dec. 15, 1840. |