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Poetry.net: "The Chronicle of the Drum" by Thackeray

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The complete text of William Makepeace Thackeray's poem "The Chronicle of the Drum", a narrative of French military history. This ballad was written in Paris, in 1841, at the time of the second funeral of Napoleon.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)