Living
To Lady Holland, on Napoleon's Legacy Op a Snuff-Box
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Living
Gift of the Hero, on his dying day,
To her, whose pity watched, for ever nigh;
Oh! could he see the proud, the happy ray,
This relic lights up on her generous eye,
Sighing, he'd feel how easy 'tis to pay
A friendship all his kingdoms could not buy.
Paris, July, 1821
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Moore, Thomas. “To Lady Holland, on Napoleon's Legacy Op a Snuff-Box.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/515/.
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Moore, Thomas. “To Lady Holland, on Napoleon's Legacy Op a Snuff-Box.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/515/.
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