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NAPOLEON'S SNUFF-BOX by GEORGE GORDON BYRON

Poet Analysis

First Line: LADY, ACCEPT THE BOX A HERO WORE
Last Line: PREVENT YOUR LADYSHIP FROM TAKING SNUFF!
Subject(s): SNUFF (TOBACCO); NAPOLEON I (1769-1821);

LADY, accept the box a hero wore,
In spite of all this elegiac stuff:
Let not seven stanzas written by a bore,
Prevent your Ladyship from taking snuff!



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