Humble heritage

Humble heritage

Some kind of portent imperial hope

That his policies would not go to rope

That with evil future can stoically cope

Or fear of death lonely way to pave

To die a prince or survive as a slave,

The election is most cruelly brave.

Between royalists and anarchists,

They all know the problem’s gist.

Such duplicity in his actions. A mist

Settles the obscure plebiscite.

From Elba to St Helena, all hope

That with serene retreat Boney

Left to his memoirs, soft prey,

Would subject to what we crave

Would aspire to humility on his grave. 

Victoria and Albert Museum London 14h35 22^nd November 2018

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