AN EPITAPH OF THE TIMES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 51, 1 March 1871, Page 2

AN EPITAPH OF THE TIMES.

[fkom the peeiod.] R. I. P. Here lies Politically speaking, Louis Napoleon Buonaparte, Born in 1808, at the Tuilerios, Died in 1870, at Sedan, Crushed by The fall of au Edifice, to the sedificatiort of which He had devoted His life, His ambition, And the reputation of his Race. Creator of tlie liberty of Italy, Dictator of the Freedom of France, The steadfast Ally of Englaud, And the opponent of Bismarck, not of Germany, The author of " Les Ides Napoleoniennes," Lived to behold Italy refuse him, France reject him, England abuse him, And Germany subject him ; And to die Amidst the howls of the goodly pack That had licked his boots, Yelped at the heels of his enemies, And fed on the fragments from his table. He fell a Victim to Centralisation, Of which he had been the Mahomet, And to the pride of the nation, Whose prosperity he had increased, Whose property he had secured, Whose commerce he had fostered, Whose homes he had beautified, But Whose Vanity His negligence had stricken to the heart. " The Period" Has erected this monument over him, As one who, v Whatever his faults, Has left such marks upon the Present, That his traces will be^ distinctly seen upon the Future ;.and Who has lived such a life, As to have deserved a far more glorious death.

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