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NAPOLEON by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT IS THE WORLD, O SOLDIERS?
Last Line: IS I.'
Subject(s): NAPOLEON I (1769-1821); WAR;

'What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I:
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky;
Soldiers, this solitude
Through which we go
Is I.'



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