"BUT YESTERDAY A KING!"
-, : a ■ '. •. / The following apostrophe is from Lord ; , Byron's "Ode to Napoleon." It is topical , i to these tremendous days, but—the Kaiser '.; is very far from being in the.same class , with Napoleon:— ,■■ ' ■ 'Tie" done—but yesterday a King! •. :■ , : And armed with Kings to strive— ; ■ And now thou are a nameless thing: ■} ' So abject-yet alive! , ,' :j Iβ this tlie man of thousand thrones, J Who strewed our earth with hostile, 4 bones, V ■: And can he thus survive? ; Since he, miscalled the Morning Star, . Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far, * * * .*■■;•;. The Deeolator desolate! The Victor overthrown! ; Tho Arbiter oj, others' fate, " A. suppliant for his own! *** • « But thou-froni thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung— '■_: Too lato thou leav'st tho High €ommaud ... To which thy weakness clung; All evil Spirit as thou art, . , It is enough to grieve the heart to see thine own unstrung; Tq think that God's fair world hath been ' The footstool of a thing so mean! ; • —Lord Byron: "Odo to Napoleon ] Bonaparte." . •
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 5
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169"BUT YESTERDAY A KING!" Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 5
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