CONSOLATION
by: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
 ITTLE'S
the good to sit and grieve
- Because the serpent tempted Eve.
- Better to wipe your eyes and take
- A club and go out and kill a snake.
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- But if you prefer, as I suspect,
- To philosophize, why, then, reflect:
- If the cunning rascal upon the limb
- Hadn't tempted her she'd have tempted him.
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"Consolation" is reprinted
from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce Vol. IV: Shapes
of Clay. Ambrose Bierce. New York: Neale Publishing Company,
1910. |
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