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 | The collected works of Ambrose Bierce |  |
[Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see]
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be—
Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth.
While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote—
For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow:
“Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow.”
Halcyon Jones.
| The collected works of Ambrose Bierce | |