<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342631" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Dampened Ardor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Chinatown at Bakersfield<br>Was blazing bright and high;<br>The flames to water would not yield,<br>Though torrents drenched the sky<br>And drowned the ground for miles around<br>The houses were so dry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then rose an aged preacher man<br>Whom all did much admire,<br>Who said: 'To force on you my plan<br>I truly don't aspire,<br>But streams, it seems, might quench these beams<br>If turned upon the fire.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fireman said: 'This hoary wight<br>His folly dares to thrust<br>On _us_! 'Twere well he felt our might<br>Nay, he shall feel our must!'<br>With jet of wet and small regret<br>They laid that old man's dust.</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=342631" data-title="A Dampened Ardor de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="The Chinatown at Bakersfield Was blazing bright and high; The flames to water would not yield, Though torrents drenched the sky And drowned the ground for miles around The houses were so dry. Then rose an aged preacher man Whom all did much admir..."></div> </div> </div>

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