Show ingersoll aud and napoleon A little while opo ago I 1 sto stood 0 d by the gravis grava of the old napoleon a mag niti cent tomb of 0 gilt and gold fit all al most for a dead deity and gazed upon the sarcophagus of black egypt tian mar marble blet where rest at last the ashes ot of that restless man I 1 leaned over the balustrade and thought of the career of tha greatest soldier ot of the modern world I 1 1 I saw him binai walk ing upon on the bo banks of the seine heine con t k saw him putting do down the mob in the aralts of paris I 1 SAW him at the head of the army arav of italy I 1 saw him crossing the bridge of lodi with the tri color in his hand I 1 saw him in egypt in ill the shadows of 0 the pyramids laj I 1 saw him conquer the alps and mingle the eagles ot of france franca with the eagles ot of the tha crags I 1 saw sav him at marengo ut all ulim an und austerlitz I 1 saw savy him it in it kaaria again where the infantry of 0 the tha snow at and I 1 d the cavalry of the wild blast battered Bentt eatter ered ed his legions lilo like winters saw at in defeat and disa disaster stet driven by a million bayonets back upon paria clutched haea like a wild beast bani banished abOd to elba I 1 saw BOW him escape escalo all and 1 I re take an empire by the force of hi his genius 1 I saw him upon tb this ir field of waterloo where chance and fate combined to wreck the fortunes jol alf their former king kic and I 1 saw him at a t tit 81 helena with his bis hands crossed behind him gazing ont upon the sad end anil solemn sea I 1 thought of the orphana nod abid widows lie he had made of 0 tho that had been shell ahel for his bia glory and of the otly olly ot ly woman who aver loved him birn priti pushed bed front from his hia heart by tile cold land hand of ambition andi and I 1 said I 1 would rather have b born on a french peasant and worn wooden abao ifould I 1 would rattler rather have lived in a but with a vi vine us growing oy over r the door and tho the grapes growing purple aple in tile he kisses of tho antum sun suii I 1 would rather haie 0 been that poor witti with my wife by my nitsui knitting as tile the died out of the sky shy with my TOT children upon ray my knees und and their arms arma around me ma I 1 would rather have boon been that ician mau find and VOM houi down sil ortee ot i J alle ho ireat aless dust thuu than to have bave bee nihat imperial impi monitor of for and evirder known as napoleon the groit ore it and fiill QI would ton ten thou eliod tittles |