Crossword-Solution: VERSER 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Though Napoleon at that time, in 1812, was more convinced than ever that it depended on him, verser (ou ne pas verser) le sang de ses peuples *—as Alexander expressed it in the last letter he wrote him—he had never been so much in the grip of inevitable laws, which compelled him, while thinking that he was acting on his own volition, to perform for the hive life—that is to say, for history—whatever had to be performed.

Oulibicheff and other learned men may say who succeed more easily in POURING FORTH in these matters than in being well versed [A play on words--verser and verse.] in them, will remain the crowning point of Beethoven's greatness.

George Herbert, in that admirable poem called 'The Temple,' introduces his reader tot he church porch thus:-- 'Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure; Hearken unto a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure.

Eux-même épureront, par un long artifice, Ton honneur qu'ils pensent ternir." Soyez béni, mon Dieu, vous qui daignez me rendre L'innocence et son noble orgueil; Vous qui, pour protéger le repos de ma cendre, Veillerez prés de mon cercueil! Au banquet de la vie, infortuné convive, J'apparus un jour, et je meurs! Je meurs, et sur ma tombe, où lentement j'arrive, Nul ne viendra verser des pleurs.

Contemple les amans, qui viennent chaque jour, Verser sur ton tombeau les larmes de l’amour! Vois ce groupe d’enfans, se jouant sous l’ombrage, Qui de leur liberté viennent te rendre hommage; Et dis, en contemplant ce spectacle enchanteur, _Je ne fus point heureux, mais j’ai fait leur bonheur_.” Ill-fated mortal! doom’d, alas! to find The grave sole refuge from thy restless mind.