<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343047" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vice Versa</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down in the state of Maine, the story goes,<br>A woman, to secure a lapsing pension,<br>Married a soldier-though the good Lord knows<br>That very common act scarce calls for mention.<br>What makes it worthy to be writ and read<br>The man she married had been nine hours dead!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, marrying a corpse is not an act<br>Familiar to our daily observation,<br>And so I crave her pardon if the fact<br>Suggests this interesting speculation:<br>Should some mischance restore the man to life<br>Would she be then a widow, or a wife?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let casuists contest the point; I'm not<br>Disposed to grapple with so great a matter.<br>'T would tie my thinker in a double knot<br>And drive me staring mad as any hatter<br>Though I submit that hatters are, in fact,<br>Sane, and all other human beings cracked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Small thought have I of Destiny or Chance;<br>Luck seems to me the same thing as Intention;<br>In metaphysics I could ne'er advance,<br>And think it of the Devil's own invention.<br>Enough of joy to know though when I wed<br>I _must_ be married, yet I _may_ be dead.</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=343047" data-title="Vice Versa de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Down in the state of Maine, the story goes, A woman, to secure a lapsing pension, Married a soldier-though the good Lord knows That very common act scarce calls for mention. What makes it worthy to be writ and read The man she married had been nin..."></div> </div> </div>

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