THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Ambrose Bierce - Sunny Hills High School

Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary
GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of
the medical student.
Beside a lonely grave I stood‐‐
With brambles 'twas encumbered;
The winds were moaning in the wood,
Unheard by him who slumbered,
A rustic standing near, I said:
"He cannot hear it blowing!"
"'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead‐‐
He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going."
"Too true," I said; "alas, too true‐‐
No sound his sense can quicken!"
"Well, mister, wot is that to you?‐‐
The deadster ain't a‐kickin'."
I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile
On him, and mercy show him!"
That countryman looked on the while,
And said: "Ye didn't know him."
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