<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Statistics</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Napoleon</span> shifted</p><p class="line">Restless in the old sarcophagus</p><p class="line">And murmured to a watchguard:</p><p class="line">"Who goes there?"</p><p class="line">"Twenty-one million men,</p><p class="line">Soldiers, armies, guns,</p><p class="line">Twenty-one million</p><p class="line">Afoot, horseback,</p><p class="line">In the air,</p><p class="line">Under the sea."</p><p class="line">And Napoleon turned to his sleep:</p><p class="line">"It is not my world answering;</p><p class="line">It is some dreamer who knows not</p><p class="line">The world I marched in</p><p class="line">From Calais to Moscow."</p><p class="line">And he slept on</p><p class="line">In the old sarcophagus</p><p class="line">While the aëroplanes</p><p class="line">Droned their motors</p><p class="line">Between Napoleon's mausoleum</p><p class="line">And the cool night stars.</p></div><p class="byline">-- Carl Sandburg.</p></body></html> · Great War