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Rude presents that Fortune had made him
In fifty victorious wars.
" This came when I follow'd bold Kleber--
'Twas shot by a Mameluke gun;
And this from an Austrian sabre,
When the field of Marengo was won.

" My forehead has many deep furrows,
But this is the deepest of all:
A Brunswicker made it at Jena,
Beside the fair river of Saal.
This cross, 'twas the Emperor gave it;
(God bless him !) it covers a blow;
I had it at Austerlitz fight,
As I beat on my drum in the snow.


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