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 222 CARL SANDBURG

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Napoleon shifted

Restless in the old sarcophagus

And murmured to a watchguard :

"Who goes there?"

"Twenty-one million men.

Soldiers, armies, guns,

Twenty-one million

Afoot, horseback.

In the air,

Under the sea."

And Napoleon turned to his sleep :

" It is not my world answering ;

It is some dreamer who knows not

The world I marched in

From Calais to Moscow."

And he slept on

In the old sarcophagus

While the aeroplanes

Droned their motors

Between Napoleon's mausoleum

And the cool night stars.

— Carl Sandburg.

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