<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342784" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Emancipation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold! the days of miracle at last<br>Return-if ever they were truly past:<br>From sinful creditors' unholy greed<br>The church called Calvary at last is freed<br>So called for there the Savior's crucified,<br>Roberts and Carmany on either side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The circling contribution-box no more<br>Provokes the nod and simulated snore;<br>No more the Lottery, no more the Fair,<br>Lure the reluctant dollar from its lair,<br>Nor Ladies' Lunches at a bit a bite<br>Destroy the health yet spare the appetite,<br>While thrifty sisters o'er the cauldron stoop<br>To serve their God with zeal, their friends with soup,<br>And all the brethren mendicate the earth<br>With viewless placards: 'We've been _so_ from birth!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sure of his wage, the pastor now can lend<br>His whole attention to his latter end,<br>Remarking with a martyr's prescient thrill<br>The Hemp maturing on the cheerless Hill.<br>The holy brethren, lifting pious palms,<br>Pour out their gratitude in prayer and psalms,<br>Chant _De Profundis_, meaning 'out of debt,'<br>And dance like mad-or would if they were let.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deeply disguised (a deacon newly dead<br>Supplied the means) Jack Satan holds his head<br>As high as any and as loudly sings<br>His _jubilate_ till each rafter rings.<br>'Rejoice, ye ever faithful,' bellows he,<br>'The debt is lifted and the temple free!'<br>Then says, aside, with gentle cachination:<br>'I've got a mortgage on the congregation.'</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=342784" data-title="Emancipation de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Behold! the days of miracle at last Return-if ever they were truly past: From sinful creditors' unholy greed The church called Calvary at last is freed So called for there the Savior's crucified, Roberts and Carmany on either side. The circling c..."></div> </div> </div>

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