Here again is the acrostic by Emily Beavan that I posted a while back… we have come to something like a consensus about what the beautiful but hard-to-decipher hand writing says. See if you agree with us.
Napoleon
Nurs’d in the lap of war and strife
Amid the camp he pass’d his life
Proud France, from you the Hero came
O‘er all the earth to raise a name
Like the fierce eagle thus begun
Earth saw him soar to Victory’s sun
Oh too as living man of Fame,
Now what’s thy glory’s end — a name.
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Congratulations — I think you’ve got it!
Great thanks to Lyn Nunn (who sent the originals) and her friend down in Australia who sent me their very helpful contributions.