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I should like good friends to mention the disaster which befell	A
Mr William Perry Peters of the town of Muscatel	A
Whose fate is full of meaning if correctly understood	B
Admonition to the haughty consolation to the good	B
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It happened in the hot snap which we recently incurred	C
When 'twas warm enough to carbonize the feathers of a bird	C
And men exclaimed 'By Hunky ' who were bad enough to swear	D
And pious persons supervised their adjectives with care	D
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Mr Peters was a pedagogue of honor and repute	E
His learning comprehensive multifarious minute	F
It was commonly conceded in the section whence he came	G
That the man who played against him needed knowledge of the game	G
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And some there were who whispered in the town of Muscatel	A
That besides the game of Draw he knew Orthography as well	A
Though the school directors frigidly contemning that as stuff	H
Thought that Draw and maybe Spelling if it pleased him was enough	H
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Withal he was a haughty man indubitably great	I
But too vain of his attainments and his power in debate	I
His mien was contumelious to men of lesser gift	J
'It's only me ' he said 'can give the human mind a lift	J
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'Before a proper audience if ever I've a chance	K
You'll see me chipping in the cause of Learning to advance	K
Just let me have a decent chance to back my mental hand	L
And I'll come to center lightly in a way they'll understand '	-
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Such was William Perry Peters and I feel a poignant sense	M
Of grief that I'm unable to employ the present tense	M
But Providence disposes be our scheming what it may	N
And disposed of Mr Peters in a cold regardless way	N
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It occurred in San Francisco whither Mr Peters came	G
In the cause of Education feeling still the holy flame	G
Of ambition to assist in lifting up the human mind	O
To a higher plane of knowledge than its Architect designed	O
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He attended the convention of the pedagogic host	P
He was first in the Pavilion he was last to leave his post	P
For days and days he narrowly observed the Chairman's eye	Q
His efforts ineffectual to catch it on the fly	Q
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The blessed moment came at last the Chairman tipped his head	R
'The gentleman from ah um er ' that functionary said	R
The gentleman from ah um er reflected with a grin	S
'They'll know me better by and by when I'm a chipping in '	-
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So William Perry Peters mounted cheerfully his feet	T
And straightway was aglow with an incalculable heat	T
His face was as effulgent as a human face could be	U
And caloric emanated from his whole periphery	U
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For he felt himself the focus of non Muscatelish eyes	V
And the pain of their convergence was a terror and surprise	V
As with pitiless impaction all their heat waves on him broke	W
He was seen to be evolving awful quantities of smoke	W
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'Put him out ' cried all in chorus but the meaning wasn't clear	X
Of that succoring suggestion to his obfuscated ear	Y
And it notably augmented his incinerating glow	A
To regard himself excessive or in any way de trop	Z
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Gone was all his wild ambition to lift up the human mind	O
Gone the words he would have uttered gone the thought that lay behind	O
For 'words that burn' may be consumed in a superior flame	G
And 'thoughts that breathe' may breathe their last and die a death of shame	G
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He'd known himself a shining light but never had he known	A2
Himself so very luminous as now he knew he shone	A2
'A pillar I of fire ' he'd said 'to guide my race will be '	-
And now that very inconvenient thing to him was he	U
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He stood there all irresolute the seconds went and came	G
The minutes passed and did but add fresh fuel to his flame	G
How long he stood he knew not 'twas a century or more	B2
And then that incandescent man levanted for the door	B2
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He darted like a comet from the building to the street	T
Where Fahrenheit attested ninety five degrees of heat	T
Vicissitudes of climate make the tenure of the breath	C2
Precarious and William Perry Peters froze to death	C2

Ambrose Bierce

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