<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342980" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hail, peerless Pun! thou last and best,<br>Most rare and excellent bequest<br>Of dying idiot to the wit<br>He died of, rat-like, in a pit!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thyself disguised, in many a way<br>Thou let'st thy sudden splendor play,<br>Adorning all where'er it turns,<br>As the revealing bull's-eye burns,<br>Of the dim thief, and plays its trick<br>Upon the lock he means to pick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet sometimes, too, thou dost appear<br>As boldly as a brigadier<br>Tricked out with marks and signs, all o'er,<br>Of rank, brigade, division, corps,<br>To show by every means he can<br>An officer is not a man;<br>Or naked, with a lordly swagger,<br>Proud as a cur without a wagger,<br>Who says: 'See simple worth prevail<br>All dog, sir-not a bit of tail!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T is then men give thee loudest welcome,<br>As if thou wert a soul from Hell come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O obvious Pun! thou hast the grace<br>Of skeleton clock without a case<br>With all its boweling displayed,<br>And all its organs on parade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Pun, you're common ground of bliss,<br>Where _Punch_ and I can meet and kiss;<br>Than thee my wit can stoop no low'r<br>No higher his does ever soar.</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=342980" data-title="The Pun de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Hail, peerless Pun! thou last and best, Most rare and excellent bequest Of dying idiot to the wit He died of, rat-like, in a pit! Thyself disguised, in many a way Thou let'st thy sudden splendor play, Adorning all where'er it turns, As the reveal..."></div> </div> </div>

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