 | The collected works of Ambrose Bierce |  |
[Poor Isabella's dead, whose abdication]
Poor Isabella's dead, whose abdicationSet all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation.
For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her:
She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her.
To History she'll be no royal riddle—
Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle.
G. J.
| The collected works of Ambrose Bierce | |