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Stately court of Fontainebleau	A
Nine and ninety years ago	A
On thy spacious esplanade	B
Ranged in formal dress parade	C
Stood the Emperor's grenadiers	D
With their bronzed cheeks wet with tears	D
Waiting once again to show	A
Love for him at Fontainebleau	A
	-
Noon had struck above the square	E
When adown the Horse Shoe stair	E
In his well known coat of gray	F
Worn on many a hard fought day	F
Came the man adored by all	G
As their Little Corporal	H
Forced by Europe now to go	A
Far from royal Fontainebleau	A
	-
In the ranks a sudden stir	I
Swelled to shouts of Vive l'Empereur	I
Then deep silence reigned save where	I
On the peaceful summer air	I
Choking sobs but half suppressed	J
Came from many a faithful breast	J
At the overwhelming blow	A
Dealt them here at Fontainebleau	A
	-
Could the rumor then be true	I
Would he say to them adieu	I
Would their idol and their pride	K
He whom they had deified	K
Leave his royal grenadiers	D
Veteran troops of twenty years	D
Hark he speaks in accents low	A
To his Guard at Fontainebleau	A
	-
Comrades brothers we must part	L
How his lov'd tones thrilled each heart	L
It were wrong to you and France	D
Did I once more say 'Advance'	D
On the ruins of my State	M
I at last must abdicate	M
And with you no more can know	A
Happy days at Fontainebleau	A
	-
Valiant soldiers of my Guard	N
Thus to part is doubly hard	N
Did you silence Prussian guns	D
March beneath Italian suns	D
Enter Moscow and Madrid	O
Fight beside the Pyramid	O
And survive grim Russia's snow	A
Thus to yield at Fontainebleau	A
	-
Heroes of great wars farewell	P
You have heard my empire's knell	P
Yet no hostile world's decree	I
Can estrange your hearts from me	I
Exiled to a tiny isle	Q
Through your tears you well may smile	Q
At the realm my foes bestow	A
Elba after Fontainebleau	A
	-
Now of all who once were true	I
I can count alone on you	I
Would that each might take the place	D
Of the eagle I embrace	D
Let the tears which on it fall	G
Move the souls of one and all	G
Never have I loved you so	A
As to day at Fontainebleau	A
	-
Hushed his voice a moment more	I
At the passing carriage door	I
Gleamed Napoleon's mournful eyes	D
Smouldering flames of sacrifice	D
Then his pallid classic face	D
Vanished ghostlike into space	D
And a dreary sense of woe	A
Settled over Fontainebleau	A
	-
Dead are now those grenadiers	D
Quelled are Europe's anxious fears	D
By the Seine the Emperor sleeps	D
France her watch beside him keeps	D
But the lonely Horse Shoe stair	I
Still preserves its sombre air	I
For the light of long ago	A
Falls no more on Fontainebleau	A

John L. Stoddard

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