<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342629" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Crocodile</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay, Peter Robertson, 'tis not for you<br>To blubber o'er Max Taubles for he's dead.<br>By Heaven! my hearty, if you only knew<br>How better is a grave-worm in the head<br>Than brains like yours-how far more decent, too,<br>A tomb in far Corea than a bed<br>Where Peter lies with Peter, you would covet<br>His happier state and, dying, learn to love it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the recesses of the silent tomb<br>No Maunderings of yours disturb the peace.<br>Your mental bag-pipe, droning like the gloom<br>Of Hades audible, perforce must cease<br>From troubling further; and that crack o' doom,<br>Your mouth, shaped like a long bow, shall release<br>In vain such shafts of wit as it can utter<br>The ear of death can't even hear them flutter.</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=342629" data-title="A Crocodile de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Nay, Peter Robertson, 'tis not for you To blubber o'er Max Taubles for he's dead. By Heaven! my hearty, if you only knew How better is a grave-worm in the head Than brains like yours-how far more decent, too, A tomb in far Corea than a bed Where P..."></div> </div> </div>

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