We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone—

But we left him alone with his glory.

Charles Wolfe.

CCXIII
ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

’Tis done—but yesterday a King!

And armed with Kings to strive—

And now thou art a nameless thing:

So abject—yet alive!

Is this the man of thousand thrones, 5

Who strewed our earth with hostile bones,