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I died As meekly in the earth I lay	A
With shriveled fingers reverently folded	B
The worm uncivil engineer my clay	A
Tunneled industriously and the mole did	C
My body could not dodge them but my soul did	C
For that had flown from this terrestrial ball	D
And I was rid of it for good and all	D
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So there I lay debating what to do	E
What measures might most usefully be taken	F
To circumvent the subterranean crew	E
Of anthropophagi and save my bacon	F
My fortitude was all this while unshaken	F
But any gentleman of course protests	G
Against receiving uninvited guests	G
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However proud he might be of his meats	H
Not even Apicius nor I think Lucullus	H
Wasted on tramps his culinary sweets	H
' Aut Caesar ' say judicious hosts ' aut nullus '	-
And though when Marcius came unbidden Tullus	H
Aufidius feasted him because he starved	I
Marcius by Tullus afterward was carved	I
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We feed the hungry as the book commands	H
For men might question else our orthodoxy	H
But do not care to see the outstretched hands	H
And so we minister to them by proxy	H
When Want in his improper person knocks he	H
Finds we're engaged The graveworm's very fresh	J
To think we like his presence in the flesh	J
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So as I said I lay in doubt in all	D
That underworld no judges could determine	F
My rights When Death approaches them they fall	D
And falling naturally soil their ermine	F
And still below ground as above the vermin	K
That work by dark and silent methods win	K
The case the burial case that one is in	K
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Cases at law so slowly get ahead	L
Even when the right is visibly unclouded	L
That if all men are classed as quick and dead	L
The judges all are dead though some unshrouded	L
Pray Jove that when they're actually crowded	L
On Styx's brink and Charon rows in sight	L
His bark prove worse than Cerberus's bite	L
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Ah Cerberus if you had but begot	L
A race of three mouthed dogs for man to nourish	M
And woman to caress the muse had not	L
Lamented the decay of virtues currish	M
And triple hydrophobia now would flourish	M
For barking biting kissing to employ	N
Canine repeaters were indeed a joy	N
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Lord how we cling to this vile world Here I	O
Whose dust was laid ere I began this carping	P
By moles and worms and such familiar fry	O
Run through and through am singing still and harping	P
Of mundane matters flatting too and sharping	P
I hate the Angel of the Sleeping Cup	Q
So I'm for getting and for shutting up	Q

Ambrose Bierce

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