<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342922" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Barking Weasel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You say, John Irish, Mr. Taylor hath<br>A painted beard. Quite likely that is true,<br>And sure 'tis natural you spend your wrath<br>On what has been least merciful to you.<br>By Taylor's chin, if I am not mistaken,<br>You like a rat have recently been shaken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To wear a beard of artificial hue<br>May be or this or that, I know not what;<br>But, faith, 'tis better to be black-and-blue<br>In beard from dallying with brush and pot<br>Than to be so in body from the beating<br>That hardy rogues get when detected cheating.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You're whacked about the mazzard rather more<br>Of late than any other man in town.<br>Certes your vulnerable back is sore<br>And tender, too, your corrigible crown.<br>In truth your whole periphery discloses<br>More vivid colors than a bed of posies!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You call it glory! Put your tongue in sheath!<br>Scars got in battle, even if on the breast,<br>May be a shameful record if, beneath,<br>A robber heart a lawless strife attest.<br>John Sullivan had wounds, and Paddy Ryan<br>Nay, as to that, even Masten has, and Bryan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis willingly conceded you've a knack<br>At holding the attention of the town;<br>The worse for you when you have on your back<br>What did not grow there-prithee put it down!<br>For pride kills thrift, and you lack board and lodging,<br>Even while the brickbats of renown you're dodging.</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=342922" data-title="The Barking Weasel de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="You say, John Irish, Mr. Taylor hath A painted beard. Quite likely that is true, And sure 'tis natural you spend your wrath On what has been least merciful to you. By Taylor's chin, if I am not mistaken, You like a rat have recently been shaken. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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