Shapes of Clay by Ambrose Bierce
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"Thanks--but my care is somewhat less For Jack's, than for my own, distress. "Could I but find a friendly roof, Small odds what weather were aloof. "For he whose comfort is secure Another's woes can well endure." "The latch-string's out," the voice replied, "And so's the door--jes' step inside." Then through the darkness I discerned A hovel, into which I turned. Groping about beneath its thatch, I struck my head and then a match. A candle by that gleam betrayed Soon lent paraffinaceous aid. A pallid, bald and thin old man I saw, who this complaint began: "Through summer suns and winter snows I sets observin' of my toes. "I rambles with increasin' pain The path of duty, but in vain. |
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