| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | May 5 | | Napoleon | | By Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| | | A SOUL inhuman? No, not human all, | |
| If human is each passion man has known: | |
| Scorn, hate, and love; the lust of empire, grown | |
| To such a height as did the world appal;— | |
| If the same human soul may soar and crawl | 5 |
| As soared his and as crawled; if to atone | |
| For fame consummate by colossal fall;— | |
| If human ’tis to see friend, partisan | |
| Turn, dastardly, the imperial hand to tear | |
| That fed them; if through gnawing years to plan | 10 |
| Vengeance, and space to breathe the unfettered air— | |
| No alien from his kind but very man | |
| Slow perished on that island of despair. | | | | |
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