Dave Hill 'Flapping His Arms On The Air To Ride
If anyone knows de origin of the feud between bitter Ambrose Bierce
ref rib 'poor, featherless biped, Dave Hill' hated politician fierce
then 'The Valley Of Dry Bones' 'Caw! Caw! Caw! ' words please pierce?
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The Valley Of Dry Bones
With crow bones all the land is white,
From the gates of morn to the gates of night.
Picked clean, they lie on the cumbered ground,
And the politician's paunch is round;
And he strokes it down and across as he sings:
'I've eaten my fill of the legs and wings,
The neck, the back, the pontifical nose,
Breast, belly and gizzard, for everything goes.
The meat that's dark (and there's none that's white)
Exceeded the need of my appetite,
But I've bravely stuck to the needful work
That a hungry domestic hog would shirk.
I've eaten the fowl that the Fates commend
To reluctant lips of the People's Friend.
Rank unspeakably, bitter as gall,
Is the bird, but I've eaten it, feathers and all.
I'm a dutiful statesman, I am, although
I really don't like a diet of crow.
So I've dined all alone in a furtive way,
But my platter I've cleaned every blessed day.
They say that I bolt; so I do-my bird;
They say that I sulk, but they've widely erred!
O Lord! if my enemies only knew
How I'm full to the throat with the corvic stew
They'd open their ears to hear me profess
The faith compelled by the corvic stress,
(For, alas! necessity knows no law)
In the heavenly caucus-'Caw! Caw! Caw!''
And that ornithanthropical person tried
By flapping his arms on the air to ride;
But I knew by the way that he clacked his bill
He was just the poor, featherless biped, Dave Hill.
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Quotation. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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With a Book
Words shouting, singing, smiling, frowning--
Sense lacking.
Ah, nothing, more obscure than Browning,
Save blacking.
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Brain an apparatus with which we think we think.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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When you doubt, abstain.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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A Bulletin
'Lothario is very low,'
So all the doctors tell.
Nay, nay, not _so_-he will be, though,
If ever he get well.
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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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