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Sharon ambitious of immortal shame	A
Fame's dead wall daubed with his illustrious name	A
Served in the Senate for our sins his time	B
Each word a folly and each vote a crime	B
Law for our governance well skilled to make	C
By knowledge gained in study how to break	C
Yet still by the presiding eye ignored	D
Which only sought him when too loud he snored	D
Auspicious thunder when he woke to vote	D
He stilled his own to cut his country's throat	D
That rite performed fell off again to sleep	E
While statesmen ages dead awoke to weep	E
For sedentary service all unfit	D
By lying long disqualified to sit	D
Wasting below as he decayed aloft	D
His seat grown harder as his brain grew soft	D
He left the hall he could not bring away	F
And grateful millions blessed the happy day	F
Whate'er contention in that hall is heard	D
His sovereign State has still the final word	D
For disputatious statesmen when they roar	G
Startle the ancient echoes of his snore	G
Which from their dusty nooks expostulate	D
And close with stormy clamor the debate	D
To low melodious thunders then they fade	D
Their murmuring lullabies all ears invade	D
Peace takes the Chair the portal Silence keeps	H
No motion stirs the dark Lethean deeps	H
Washoe has spoken and the Senate sleeps	H
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Lo the new Sharon with a new intent	D
Making no laws but keen to circumvent	D
The laws of Nature since he can't repeal	I
That break his failing body on the wheel	I
As Tantalus again and yet again	J
The elusive wave endeavors to restrain	K
To slake his awful thirst so Sharon tries	H
To purchase happiness that age denies	H
Obtains the shadow but the substance goes	H
And hugs the thorn but cannot keep the rose	H
For Dead Sea fruits bids prodigally eats	H
And then with tardy reformation cheats	H
Alert his faculties as three score years	H
And four score vices will permit he nears	H
Dicing with Death the finish of the game	A
And curses still his candle's wasting flame	A
The narrow circle of whose feeble glow	L
Dims and diminishes at every throw	L
Moments his losses pleasures are his gains	H
Which even in his grasp revert to pains	H
The joy of grasping them alone remains	H
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Ring up the curtain and the play protract	D
Behold our Sharon in his last mad act	D
With man long warring quarreling with God	D
He crouches now beneath a woman's rod	D
Predestined for his back while yet it lay	F
Closed in an acorn which one luckless day	F
He stole unconscious of its foetal twig	M
From the scant garner of a sightless pig	M
With bleeding shoulders pitilessly scored	D
He bawls more lustily than once he snored	D
The sympathetic Comstocks droop to hear	N
And Carson river sheds a viscous tear	O
Which sturdy tumble bugs assail amain	K
With ready thrift and urge along the plain	K
The jackass rabbit sorrows as he lopes	H
The sage brush glooms along the mountain slopes	H
In rising clouds the poignant alkali	P
Tearless itself makes everybody cry	P
Washoe canaries on the Geiger Grade	D
Subdue the singing of their cavalcade	D
And wiping with their ears the tears unshed	D
Grieve for their family's unlucky head	D
Virginia City intermits her trade	D
And well clad strangers walk her streets unflayed	D
Nay all Nevada ceases work to weep	E
And the recording angel goes to sleep	E
But in his dreams his goose quill's creaking fount	D
Augments the debits in the long account	D
And still the continents and oceans ring	Q
With royal torments of the Silver King	Q
Incessant bellowings fill all the earth	R
Mingled with inextinguishable mirth	R
He roars men laugh Nevadans weep beasts howl	S
Plash the affrighted fish and shriek the fowl	S
With monstrous din their blended thunders rise	H
Peal upon peal and brawl along the skies	H
Startle in hell the Sharons as they groan	K
And shake the splendors of the great white throne	K
Still roaring outward through the vast profound	D
The spreading circles of receding sound	D
Pursue each other in a failing race	H
To the cold confines of eternal space	H
There break and die along that awful shore	G
Which God's own eyes have never dared explore	G
Dark fearful formless nameless evermore	G
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Look to the west Against yon steely sky	P
Lone Mountain rears its holy cross on high	P
About its base the meek faced dead are laid	D
To share the benediction of its shade	D
With crossed white hands shut eyes and formal feet	D
Their nights are innocent their days discreet	D
Sharon some years perchance remain of life	T
Of vice and greed vulgarity and strife	T
And then God speed the day if such His will	U
You'll lie among the dead you helped to kill	U
And be in good society at last	D
Your purse unsilvered and your face unbrassed	D

Ambrose Bierce

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