Boreas, however, who had his abode on the banks of the Russian ocean, and who, like Thetis in the Iliad, was not of sufficient quality to have an invitation to Ethiopia, resolves to destroy the armament which brings war and danger to his beloved Alexander.

He accordingly raises a storm which is most powerfully described.

Napoleon bewails the inglorious fate for which he seems to be reserved.

"Oh! thrice happy," says he, "those who were frozen to death at Krasnoi, or slaughtered at Leipsic.

Oh, Kutusoff, bravest of the Russians, wherefore was I not permitted to fall by thy victorious sword ?" He then offers a prayer to Aeolus, and vows to him a sacrifice of a black ram.