<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342628" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Critic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That from _you_, neighbor! to whose vacant lot<br>Each rhyming literary knacker scourges<br>His cart-compelling Pegasus to trot,<br>As folly, fame or famine smartly urges?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Admonished by the stimulating goad,<br>How gaily, lo! the spavined crow-bait prances<br>Its cart before it-eager to unload<br>The dead-dog sentiments and swill-tub fancies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gravely the sweating scavenger pulls out<br>The tail-board of his curst imagination,<br>Shoots all his rascal rubbish, and, no doubt,<br>Thanks Fortune for so good a dumping-station.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To improve your property, the vile cascade<br>Your thrift invites-to make a higher level.<br>In vain: with tons of garbage overlaid,<br>Your baseless bog sinks slowly to the devil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Rubbish may be shot here'-familiar sign!<br>I seem to see it in your every column.<br>You have your wishes, but if I had mine<br>'Twould to your editor mean something solemn.</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=342628" data-title="A Critic de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="That from _you_, neighbor! to whose vacant lot Each rhyming literary knacker scourges His cart-compelling Pegasus to trot, As folly, fame or famine smartly urges? Admonished by the stimulating goad, How gaily, lo! the spavined crow-bait prances I..."></div> </div> </div>

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