<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Cheating Preacher</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Munhall, to save my soul you bravely try,<br>Although, to save my soul, I can't say why.<br>'Tis naught to you, to me however much<br>Why, bless it! you might save a million such<br>Yet lose your own; for still the 'means of grace'<br>That you employ to turn us from the place<br>By the arch-enemy of souls frequented<br>Are those which to ensnare us he invented!<br>I do not say you utter falsehoods-I<br>Would scorn to give to ministers the lie:<br>They cannot fight-their calling has estopped it.<br>True, I did not persuade them to adopt it.<br>But, Munhall, when you say the Devil dwells<br>In all the breasts of all the infidels<br>Making a lot of individual Hells<br>In gentlemen instinctively who shrink<br>From thinking anything that you could think,<br>You talk as I should if some world I trod<br>Where lying is acceptable to God.<br>I don't at all object-forbid it Heaven!<br>That your discourse you temperately leaven<br>With airy reference to wicked souls<br>Cursing impenitent on glowing coals,<br>Nor quarrel with your fancy, blithe and fine,<br>Which represents the wickedest as mine.<br>Each ornament of style my spirit eases:<br>The subject saddens, but the manner pleases.<br>But when you 'deal damnation round' 'twere sweet<br>To think hereafter that you did not cheat.<br>Deal, and let all accept what you allot 'em.<br>But, blast you! you are dealing from the bottom!</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=342624" data-title="A Cheating Preacher de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Munhall, to save my soul you bravely try, Although, to save my soul, I can't say why. 'Tis naught to you, to me however much Why, bless it! you might save a million such Yet lose your own; for still the 'means of grace' That you employ to turn us ..."></div> </div> </div>

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