<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342809" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From Virginia To Paris</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The polecat, sovereign of its native wood,<br>Dashes damnation upon bad and good;<br>The health of all the upas trees impairs<br>By exhalations deadlier than theirs;<br>Poisons the rattlesnake and warts the toad<br>The creeks go rotten and the rocks corrode!<br>She shakes o'er breathless hill and shrinking dale<br>The horrid aspergillus of her tail!<br>From every saturated hair, till dry,<br>The spargent fragrances divergent fly,<br>Deafen the earth and scream along the sky!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Removed to alien scenes, amid the strife<br>Of urban odors to ungladden life<br>Where gas and sewers and dead dogs conspire<br>The flesh to torture and the soul to fire<br>Where all the 'well defined and several stinks'<br>Known to mankind hold revel and high jinks<br>Humbled in spirit, smitten with a sense<br>Of lost distinction, leveled eminence,<br>She suddenly resigns her baleful trust,<br>Nor ever lays again our mortal dust.<br>Her powers atrophied, her vigor sunk,<br>She lives deodorized, a sweeter skunk.</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=342809" data-title="From Virginia To Paris de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="The polecat, sovereign of its native wood, Dashes damnation upon bad and good; The health of all the upas trees impairs By exhalations deadlier than theirs; Poisons the rattlesnake and warts the toad The creeks go rotten and the rocks corrode! She..."></div> </div> </div>

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