<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342880" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Over The Border</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, justice, you have fled, to dwell<br>In Mexico, unstrangled,<br>Lest you should hang as high as-well,<br>As Haman dangled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(I know not if his cord he twanged,<br>Or the King proved forgiving.<br>'Tis hard to think of Haman hanged,<br>And Haymond living.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, as I said: in mortal fear<br>To Mexico you journeyed;<br>For you were on your trial here,<br>And ill attorneyed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Law had long regarded you<br>As an extreme offender.<br>Religion looked upon you, too,<br>With thoughts untender.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Press to you was cold as snow,<br>For sin you'd always call so.<br>In Politics you were _de trop_,<br>In Morals also.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All this is accurately true<br>And, faith! there might be more said;<br>But-well, to save your thrapple you<br>Fled, as aforesaid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You're down in Mexico-that's plain<br>As that the sun is risen;<br>For Daniel Burns, down there, his chain<br>Drags round in prison.</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=342880" data-title="Over The Border de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="O, justice, you have fled, to dwell In Mexico, unstrangled, Lest you should hang as high as-well, As Haman dangled. (I know not if his cord he twanged, Or the King proved forgiving. 'Tis hard to think of Haman hanged, And Haymond living.) Yes, a..."></div> </div> </div>

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