<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342651" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A 'Mass' Meeting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a solemn rite as e'er<br>Was seen by mortal man.<br>The celebrants, the people there,<br>Were all Republican.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There Estee bent his grizzled head,<br>And General Dimond, too,<br>And one-'twas Reddick, some one said,<br>Though no one clearly knew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the priest, white-robed and tall<br>(Assistant, Father Stow)-<br>He was the pious man men call<br>Dan Burns of Mexico.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, 'twas a high and holy rite<br>As any one could swear.<br>'What does it mean?' I asked a wight<br>Who knelt apart in prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A mass for the repose,' he said,<br>'Of Colonel Markham's'--'What,<br>Is gallant Colonel Markham dead?<br>'Tis sad, 'tis sad, God wot!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A mass'-repeated he, and rose<br>To go and kneel among<br>The worshipers-'for the repose<br>Of Colonel Markham's tongue.'</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=342651" data-title="A 'Mass' Meeting de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="It was a solemn rite as e'er Was seen by mortal man. The celebrants, the people there, Were all Republican. There Estee bent his grizzled head, And General Dimond, too, And one-'twas Reddick, some one said, Though no one clearly knew. I saw the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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