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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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