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Excerpt from A Metrical History of the Life and Times of Napoleon Bonaparte I Have no apology to offer for placing before the public the following collection of poems. If my scheme possesses no other merit than that of being unique, perhaps it will not be wholly condemned. The collection is by no means complete; neither have I sought to make it so. From the vast number of poems published, hid away, and forgotten, I have dug out and retained only such as suited my fancy, and which go to make up a sort of poetical history of the life and times of the Great Emperor; leaving behind me far more in number than I have used. Some years ago, and long before the present Napoleonic fever had taken hold of the people, I had occasion to use a certain little poem relating to the death of the illustrious exile at St. Helena. Much to my surprise, when I came to look for it, I could not find it. My friends were in the same quandary; they knew the poem, but could not locate the author, and no dictionary of writers or of subjects seemed able to help me out of my difficulty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.