Napoleon by de la Mare

 

“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.”

 

– by Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

 

N.B. I am rethinking my opinion of Bonaparte after reading Barbero’s The Battle and, naturally, Cornwall’s Sharpe’s Waterloo.