<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Again</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, I've met her again-at the Mission.<br>She'd told me to see her no more;<br>It was not a command-a petition;<br>I'd granted it once before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, granted it, hoping she'd write me.<br>Repenting her virtuous freak-<br>Subdued myself daily and nightly<br>For the better part of a week.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then ('twas my duty to spare her<br>The shame of recalling me) I<br>Just sought her again to prepare her<br>For an everlasting good-bye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, that evening of bliss-shall I ever<br>Forget it?-with Shakespeare and Poe!<br>She said, when 'twas ended: 'You're never<br>To see me again. And now go.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As we parted with kisses 'twas human<br>And natural for me to smile<br>As I thought, 'She's in love, and a woman:<br>She'll send for me after a while.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But she didn't; and so-well, the Mission<br>Is fine, picturesque and gray;<br>It's an excellent place for contrition<br>And sometimes she passes that way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's how it occurred that I met her,<br>And that's ah there is to tell-<br>Except that I'd like to forget her<br>Calm way of remarking: 'I'm well.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was hardly worth while, all this keying<br>My soul to such tensions and stirs<br>To learn that her food was agreeing<br>With that little stomach of hers.</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=342699" data-title="Again de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Well, I've met her again-at the Mission. She'd told me to see her no more; It was not a command-a petition; I'd granted it once before. Yes, granted it, hoping she'd write me. Repenting her virtuous freak- Subdued myself daily and nightly For the..."></div> </div> </div>

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