<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342743" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bereavement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Countess (so they tell the tale)<br>Who dwelt of old in Arno's vale,<br>Where ladies, even of high degree,<br>Know more of love than of A.B.C,<br>Came once with a prodigious bribe<br>Unto the learned village scribe,<br>That most discreet and honest man<br>Who wrote for all the lover clan,<br>Nor e'er a secret had betrayed<br>Save when inadequately paid.<br>'Write me,' she sobbed-'I pray thee do<br>A book about the Prince di Giu<br>A book of poetry in praise<br>Of all his works and all his ways;<br>The godlike grace of his address,<br>His more than woman's tenderness,<br>His courage stern and lack of guile,<br>The loves that wantoned in his smile.<br>So great he was, so rich and kind,<br>I'll not within a fortnight find<br>His equal as a lover. O,<br>My God! I shall be drowned in woe!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What! Prince di Giu has died!' exclaimed<br>The honest man for letters famed,<br>The while he pocketed her gold;<br>'Of what'?-if I may be so bold.'<br>Fresh storms of tears the lady shed:<br>'I stabbed him fifty times,' she said.</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=342743" data-title="Bereavement de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="A Countess (so they tell the tale) Who dwelt of old in Arno's vale, Where ladies, even of high degree, Know more of love than of A.B.C, Came once with a prodigious bribe Unto the learned village scribe, That most discreet and honest man Who wrote ..."></div> </div> </div>

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