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Si le marechal Grouchy avait ete rejoint par l'officier que Napoleon lui avait expedie la veille a dix heures du soir toute question eut disparu Mais cet officier n'etait point parvenu a sa destination ainsi que le marechal n'a cesse de l'affirmer toute sa vie et il faut l'en croire car autrement il n'aurait eu aucune raison pour hesiter Cet officier avait il ete pris avait il passe a l'ennemi C'est ce qu'on a toujours ignore	A
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THIERS Histoire de l'Empire Waterloo	B
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Good Father 'Twas an eve in middle June	C
And war was waged anew	B
By great Napoleon who for years had strewn	C
Men's bones all Europe through	B
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Three nights ere this with columned corps he'd crossed	D
The Sambre at Charleroi	B
To move on Brussels where the English host	E
Dallied in Parc and Bois	F
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The yestertide we'd heard the gloomy gun	G
Growl through the long sunned day	H
From Quatre Bras and Ligny till the dun	G
Twilight suppressed the fray	H
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Albeit therein as lated tongues bespoke	I
Brunswick's high heart was drained	J
And Prussia's Line and Landwehr though unbroke	I
Stood cornered and constrained	J
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And at next noon time Grouchy slowly passed	K
With thirty thousand men	L
We hoped thenceforth no army small or vast	K
Would trouble us again	L
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My hut lay deeply in a vale recessed	M
And never a soul seemed nigh	N
When reassured at length we went to rest	M
My children wife and I	N
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But what was this that broke our humble ease	O
What noise above the rain	P
Above the dripping of the poplar trees	O
That smote along the pane	P
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A call of mastery bidding me arise	Q
Compelled me to the door	B
At which a horseman stood in martial guise	Q
Splashed sweating from every pore	B
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Had I seen Grouchy Yes Which track took he	R
Could I lead thither on	S
Fulfilment would ensure gold pieces three	R
Perchance more gifts anon	S
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I bear the Emperor's mandate then he said	T
Charging the Marshal straight	U
To strike between the double host ahead	T
Ere they co operate	U
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Engaging Blucher till the Emperor put	V
Lord Wellington to flight	W
And next the Prussians This to set afoot	V
Is my emprise to night	W
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I joined him in the mist but pausing sought	X
To estimate his say	H
Grouchy had made for Wavre and yet on thought	X
I did not lead that way	H
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I mused If Grouchy thus instructed be	R
The clash comes sheer hereon	S
My farm is stript While as for pieces three	R
Money the French have none	S
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Grouchy unwarned moreo'er the English win	S
And mine is left to me	R
They buy not borrow Hence did I begin	S
To lead him treacherously	B
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By Joidoigne near to east as we ondrew	R
Dawn pierced the humid air	R
And eastward faced I with him though I knew	S
Never marched Grouchy there	R
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Near Ottignies we passed across the Dyle	B
Lim'lette left far aside	Y
And thence direct toward Pervez and Noville	B
Through green grain till he cried	Y
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I doubt thy conduct man no track is here	R
I doubt thy gaged word	Z
Thereat he scowled on me and pranced me near	R
And pricked me with his sword	A2
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Nay Captain hold We skirt not trace the course	B2
Of Grouchy said I then	S
As we go yonder went he with his force	B2
Of thirty thousand men	S
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At length noon nighed when west from Saint John's Mound	C2
A hoarse artillery boomed	D2
And from Saint Lambert's upland chapel crowned	C2
The Prussian squadrons loomed	D2
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Then to the wayless wet gray ground he leapt	E2
My mission fails he cried	Y
Too late for Grouchy now to intercept	E2
For peasant you have lied	Y
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He turned to pistol me I sprang and drew	S
The sabre from his flank	I
And 'twixt his nape and shoulder ere he knew	S
I struck and dead he sank	I
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I hid him deep in nodding rye and oat	F2
His shroud green stalks and loam	G2
His requiem the corn blade's husky note	F2
And then I hastened home	G2
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Two armies writhe in coils of red and blue	S
And brass and iron clang	I
From Goumont past the front of Waterloo	S
To Pap'lotte and Smohain	S
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The Guard Imperial wavered on the height	W
The Emperor's face grew glum	H2
I sent he said to Grouchy yesternight	W
And yet he does not come	H2
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'Twas then Good Father that the French espied	W
Streaking the summer land	W
The men of Blucher But the Emperor cried	W
Grouchy is now at hand	W
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And meanwhile Vand'leur Vivian Maitland Kempt	W
Met d'Erlon Friant Ney	S
But Grouchy mis sent blamed yet blame exempt	W
Grouchy was far away	S
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By even slain or struck Michel the strong	I
Bold Travers Dnop Delord	W
Smart Guyot Reil le l'Heriter Friant	W
Scattered that champaign o'er	R
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Fallen likewise wronged Duhesme and skilled Lobau	R
Did that red sunset see	R
Colbert Legros Blancard And of the foe	I2
Picton and Ponsonby	R
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With Gordon Canning Blackman Ompteda	W
L'Estrange Delancey Packe	I
Grose D'Oyly Stables Morice Howard Hay	S
Von Schwerin Watzdorf Boek	I
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Smith Phelips Fuller Lind and Battersby	R
And hosts of ranksmen round	W
Memorials linger yet to speak to thee	R
Of those that bit the ground	W
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The Guards' last column yielded dykes of dead	W
Lay between vale and ridge	J2
As thinned yet closing faint yet fierce they sped	W
In packs to Genappe Bridge	J2
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Safe was my stock my capple cow unslain	S
Intact each cock and hen	S
But Grouchy far at Wavre all day had lain	S
And thirty thousand men	S
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O Saints had I but lost my earing corn	S
And saved the cause once prized	W
O Saints why such false witness had I borne	S
When late I'd sympathized	W
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So now being old my children eye askance	K2
My slowly dwindling store	R
And crave my mite till worn with tarriance	K2
I care for life no more	R
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To Almighty God henceforth I stand confessed	W
And Virgin Saint Marie	R
O Michael John and Holy Ones in rest	W
Entreat the Lord for me	R

Thomas Hardy

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