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Collected poems, 1901-1918/Napoleon

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Quoted as an epigraph in Watership Down in the chapter "The Great Patrol".

2828624Collected poems, 1901-1918 — NapoleonWalter De la Mare

NAPOLEON

"WHAT is the world, soldiers?
It is I:
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky;
Soldiers, this solitude
Through which we go
Is I."