Lo! the wild rabbit, happy in the pride
Of qualities to meaner beasts denied,
Surveys the ass with reverence and fear,
Adoring his superior length of ear,
And says: 'No living creature, lean or fat,
But wishes in his heart to be like That!'

(C) Ambrose Bierce
03/10/2017


Best Poems of Ambrose Bierce

• J.f.b.
• Rebuke
• Rimer
• Elegy
• Thersites
• Polyphemus
• Piety
• Slander
• On Stone
• Indicted
• Peace
• An Actor
• A Man
• A Bubble
• A Spade
• The Legatee
• To Maude
• T.a.h.
• The Woful Tale Of Mr. Peters
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