Anton von Perger, Austro-Hungarian
“Hey, You Gave It Your Best Try, Napoleon. You Just Came Up a Little Shor– Uh, I Mean To Say, We’ll Get ‘Em Next Time,” 1845
Oil on canvas
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/// Bonaparte didn’t know what to do.
A defeat like this he never knew.
As they left the Lobau,
He thought “What happens now?
The gray Danube, I cross, feeling blue.”
/// He was warned that his warm heavy coat,
if immersed, would ensure he’d not float.
Hoping that he looks grand
he’s determined to stand,
even though he is rocking the boat.
/// As his wife, Josephine, used to bellow,
Nap was never a practical fellow.
But for fleeing, you know,
this coat’s quite apropos;
it is colored a pale shade of yellow.
/// Thinking of that Yank General, George,
(who survived winter at Valley Forge),
Bonaparte said, “Unfair!
When he crossed Delaware,
Mal de mer didn’t make him disgorge.”
/// Note, Napoleon still holds his whip,
as he rides on this cross-Danube trip.
And the reason, of course,
is he’s still on his horse,
which is jammed in the keel of the ship.