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Ambrose Bierce
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(1842-1914)
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"Alone"
In contact, lo! the flint and steel,
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"Decalogue"
Thou shalt no God but me adore:
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"Elegy"
The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
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"Freedom"
Freedom, as every schoolboy knows,
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"Piety"
The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
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"Rimer"
The rimer quenches his unheeded fires,
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"Safety-Clutch"
Once I seen a human ruin
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"Weather"
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
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An Inscription
A conqueror as provident as brave,
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New Decalogue, The
Have but one God: thy knees were sore
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Statesmen, The
How blest the land that counts among
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To the Bartholdi Statue
O Liberty, God-gifted--
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With a Book
Words shouting, singing, smiling, frowning--
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