<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For President, Leland Stanford</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mahomet Stanford, with covetous stare,<br>Gazed on a vision surpassingly fair:<br>Far on the desert's remote extreme<br>A mountain of gold with a mellow gleam<br>Reared its high pinnacles into the sky,<br>The work of _mirage_ to delude the eye.<br>Pixley Pasha, at the Prophet's feet<br>Piously licking them, swearing them sweet,<br>Ventured, observing his master's glance,<br>To beg that he order the mountain's advance.<br>Mahomet Stanford exerted his will,<br>Commanding: 'In Allah's name, hither, hill!'<br>Never an inch the mountain came.<br>Mahomet Stanford, with face aflame,<br>Lifted his foot and kicked, alack!<br>Pixley Pasha on the end of the back.<br>Mollified thus and smiling free,<br>He said: 'Since the mountain won't come to me,<br>I'll go to the mountain.' With infinite pains,<br>Camels in caravans, negroes in trains,<br>Warriors, workmen, women, and fools,<br>Food and water and mining tools<br>He gathered about him, a mighty array,<br>And the journey began at the close of day.<br>All night they traveled-at early dawn<br>Many a wearisome league had gone.<br>Morning broke fair with a golden sheen,<br>Mountain, alas, was nowhere seen!<br>Mahomet Stanford pounded his breast,<br>Pixley Pasha he thus addressed:<br>'Dog of mendacity, cheat and slave,<br>May jackasses sing o'er your grandfather's grave!'</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=342797" data-title="For President, Leland Stanford de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Mahomet Stanford, with covetous stare, Gazed on a vision surpassingly fair: Far on the desert's remote extreme A mountain of gold with a mellow gleam Reared its high pinnacles into the sky, The work of _mirage_ to delude the eye. Pixley Pasha, at ..."></div> </div> </div>

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