absence of all martial music, and the rapidity with which they moved, on account of the singular severity of the weather, gave a strange effect to the pageant, like the rushing of some splendid and terrible dream.
"The noble war-horse led
Caparisoned along."
There was a remarkable absence of enthusiasm on the part of the people, during the progress of Napoleon's funeral procession. No circumstance connected with it awakened more semblance of feeling, than the sight of a majestic war-horse, who without a rider. was led on at a slow pace, at some distance behind the car; and no spectator at the moment realized, that he could never have borne to battle the master for whom he seemed to mourn.
""A king is standing there,
And with uncovered head
Receives him in the name of France."
Those who were present in the Chapel of the Invalids, when Louis Philippe received the remains of the dead, were impressed with his dignity of manner, and the fitness of the few words that marked the occasion. The Prince de Joinville, who had been commissioned
