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NAPOLEON'S SNUFF-BOX, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, accept the box a hero wore
Last Line: Prevent your ladyship from taking snuff!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Snuff (tobacco); Napoleon I (1769-1821)


LADY, accept the box a hero wore,
In spite of all this elegiac stuff:
Let not seven stanzas written by a bore,
Prevent your Ladyship from taking snuff!





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