| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | June 1 | | Louis Napoleon | | By Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) |
| | | | Killed in Africa by the Zulus on June 1, 1879, during a skirmish in the Zulu war. |
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EAGLE of Austerlitz! where were thy wings | |
| When far away upon a barbarous strand, | |
| In fight unequal, by an obscure hand, | |
| Fell the last scion of thy brood of Kings! | |
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| Poor boy! thou wilt not flaunt thy cloak of red, | 5 |
| Nor ride in state through Paris in the van | |
| Of thy returning legions, but instead | |
| Thy mother France, free and republican, | |
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| Shall on thy dead and crownless forehead place | |
| The better laurels of a soldier’s crown, | 10 |
| That not dishonoured should thy soul go down | |
| To tell the mighty sire of thy race | |
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| That France hath kissed the mouth of Liberty, | |
| And found it sweeter than his honied bees, | |
| And that the giant wave Democracy | 15 |
| Breaks on the shores where Kings lay crouched at ease. | | | |
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