<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342816" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The friends who stood about my bed<br>Looked down upon my face and said:<br>'God's will be done-the fellow's dead.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When from my body I was free<br>I straightway felt myself, ah me!<br>Sink downward to the life to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Full twenty centuries I fell,<br>And then alighted. 'Here you dwell<br>For aye,' a Voice cried-'this is Hell!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A landscape lay about my feet,<br>Where trees were green and flowers sweet.<br>The climate was devoid of heat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun looked down with gentle beam<br>Upon the bosom of the stream,<br>Nor saw I any sign of steam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The waters by the sky were tinged,<br>The hills with light and color fringed.<br>Birds warbled on the wing unsinged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ah, no, this is not Hell,' I cried;<br>'The preachers ne'er so greatly lied.<br>This is Earth's spirit glorified!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Good souls do not in Hades dwell,<br>And, look, there's John P. Irish!' 'Well,'<br>The Voice said, 'that's what makes it Hell.'</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=342816" data-title="Hell de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="The friends who stood about my bed Looked down upon my face and said: 'God's will be done-the fellow's dead.' When from my body I was free I straightway felt myself, ah me! Sink downward to the life to be. Full twenty centuries I fell, And then ..."></div> </div> </div>

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