<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342617" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Bubble</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mrs. Mehitable Marcia Moore<br>Was a dame of superior mind,<br>With a gown which, modestly fitting before,<br>Was greatly puffed up behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bustle she wore was ingeniously planned<br>With an inspiration bright:<br>It magnified seven diameters and<br>Was remarkably nice and light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was made of rubber and edged with lace<br>And riveted all with brass,<br>And the whole immense interior space<br>Inflated with hydrogen gas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ladies all said when she hove in view<br>Like the round and rising moon:<br>'She's a stuck up thing!' which was partly true,<br>And men called her the Captive Balloon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Manhattan Beach for a bath one day<br>She went and she said: 'O dear!<br>If I leave off _this_ what will people say?<br>I shall look so uncommonly queer!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So a costume she had accordingly made<br>To take it all nicely in,<br>And when she appeared in that suit arrayed,<br>She was greeted with many a grin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Proudly and happily looking around,<br>She waded out into the wet,<br>But the water was very, very profound,<br>And her feet and her forehead met!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As her bubble drifted away from the shore,<br>On the glassy billows borne,<br>All cried: 'Why, where is Mehitable Moore?<br>I saw her go in, I'll be sworn!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the bulb it swelled as the sun grew hot,<br>Till it burst with a sullen roar,<br>And the sea like oil closed over the spot<br>Farewell, O Mehitable Moore!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342617" data-title="A Bubble de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Mrs. Mehitable Marcia Moore Was a dame of superior mind, With a gown which, modestly fitting before, Was greatly puffed up behind. The bustle she wore was ingeniously planned With an inspiration bright: It magnified seven diameters and Was remark..."></div> </div> </div>

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