Shapes of Clay by Ambrose Bierce
page 58 of 311 (18%)
page 58 of 311 (18%)
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When like a stormy dawn the crimson broke
From his white lips he smiled and mutely bled, And, having meanly lived, is grandly dead. MY MONUMENT. It is pleasant to think, as I'm watching my ink A-drying along my paper, That a monument fine will surely be mine When death has extinguished my taper. From each rhyming scribe of the journalist tribe Purged clean of all sentiments narrow, A pebble will mark his respect for the stark Stiff body that's under the barrow. By fellow-bards thrown, thus stone upon stone Will make my celebrity deathless. O, I wish I could think, as I gaze at my ink, They'd wait till my carcass is breathless. MAD. |
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