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 | The collected works of Ambrose Bierce |  |
AN INSPIRED PERFORMANCE
The Devil troubled a pool of mud,And Vierick from out the smother
Arose and to prove his royal blood
Defamed his peasant mother.
Dear Devil, his poems—we'll suffer all those,
But do not again provoke him to prose.
| The collected works of Ambrose Bierce | |