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164 He fails not, he who stakes his all

Upon the right, and dares to fall;—

What tho' the living bless or blame,

For him the long success of fame.

J. R. L.

ON HIS BIRTHDAY

NAPOLEON

THE WHITE CZAR'S PEOPLE

PART I

White Czar's people cry:

"Thou God of the heat and the cold,

Of storm and of lightning,