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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342865" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On A Proposed Crematory</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a fair bridge is builded o'er the gulf<br>Between two cities, some ambitious fool,<br>Hot for distinction, pleads for earliest leave<br>To push his clumsy feet upon the span,<br>That men in after years may single him,<br>Saying: 'Behold the fool who first went o'er!'<br>So be it when, as now the promise is,<br>Next summer sees the edifice complete<br>Which some do name a crematorium,<br>Within the vantage of whose greater maw's<br>Quicker digestion we shall cheat the worm<br>And circumvent the handed mole who loves,<br>With tunnel, adit, drift and roomy stope,<br>To mine our mortal parts in all their dips<br>And spurs and angles. Let the fool stand forth<br>To link his name with this fair enterprise,<br>As first decarcassed by the flame. And if<br>With rival greedings for the fiery fame<br>They push in clamoring multitudes, or if<br>With unaccustomed modesty they all<br>Hold off, being something loth to qualify,<br>Let me select the fittest for the rite.<br>By heaven! I'll make so warrantable, wise<br>And excellent censure of their true deserts,<br>And such a searching canvass of their claims,<br>That none shall bait the ballot. I'll spread my choice<br>Upon the main and general of those<br>Who, moved of holy impulse, pulpit-born,<br>Protested 'twere a sacrilege to burn<br>God's gracious images, designed to rot,<br>And bellowed for the right of way for each<br>Distempered carrion through the water pipes.<br>With such a sturdy, boisterous exclaim<br>They did discharge themselves from their own throats<br>Against the splintered gates of audience<br>'Twere wholesomer to take them in at mouth<br>Than ear. These shall burn first: their ignible<br>And seasoned substances-trunks, legs and arms,<br>Blent indistinguishable in a mass,<br>Like winter-woven serpents in a pit<br>None vantaged of his fellow-fools in point<br>Of precedence, and all alive-shall serve<br>As fueling to fervor the retort<br>For after cineration of true men.</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>
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Between two cities, some ambitious fool,
Hot for distinction, pleads for earliest leave
To push his clumsy feet upon the span,
That men in after years may single him,
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