<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342638" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Fool</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says Anderson, Theosophist:<br>'Among the many that exist<br>In modern halls,<br>Some lived in ancient Egypt's clime<br>And in their childhood saw the prime<br>Of Karnak's walls.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, Anderson, if that is true<br>'T is my conviction, sir, that you<br>Are one of those<br>That once resided by the Nile,<br>Peer to the sacred Crocodile,<br>Heir to his woes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My judgment is, the holy Cat<br>Mews through your larynx (and your hat)<br>These many years.<br>Through you the godlike Onion brings<br>Its melancholy sense of things,<br>And moves to tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In you the Bull divine again<br>Bellows and paws the dusty plain,<br>To nature true.<br>I challenge not his ancient hate<br>But, lowering my knurly pate,<br>Lock horns with you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though Reincarnation prove<br>A creed too stubborn to remove,<br>And all your school<br>Of Theosophs I cannot scare<br>All the more earnestly I swear<br>That you're a fool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'll say that this is mere abuse<br>Without, in fraying you, a use.<br>That's plain to see<br>With only half an eye. Come, now,<br>Be fair, be fair,-consider how<br>It eases _me_!</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=342638" data-title="A Fool de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Says Anderson, Theosophist: 'Among the many that exist In modern halls, Some lived in ancient Egypt's clime And in their childhood saw the prime Of Karnak's walls.' Ah, Anderson, if that is true 'T is my conviction, sir, that you Are one of those..."></div> </div> </div>

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