Thy name, Napoléon! For thee would dare
Thy Guard to leap adown Destruction’s ledge,
For thee would scoff in mockery of Despair!
Genius and energy thou well couldst share
With all thy Chiefs, and courage give thy men,
That scorned to yield with life their lion-lair.
A barbarous strife thou didst require—what then?
The last Barbarian thou that rushed from Scythian den!
XLI.
Meteor of Conquest! terribly endowed