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Shapes of Clay

Ambrose Bierce
The New Enoch.

An Average.

The Pun. >

  I ne’er could be entirely fond
  Of any maiden who’s a blonde,
  And no brunette that e’er I saw
  Had charms my heart’s whole
     warmth to draw.

  Yet sure no girl was ever made
  Just half of light and half of shade. 
  And so, this happy mean to get,
  I love a blonde and a brunette.

  WOMAN.

  Study good women and ignore the rest,
  For he best knows the sex who knows the best.

INCURABLE.

  From pride, joy, hate, greed, melancholy—­
  From any kind of vice, or folly,
  Bias, propensity or passion
  That is in prevalence and fashion,
  Save one, the sufferer or lover
  May, by the grace of God, recover: 
  Alone that spiritual tetter,
  The zeal to make creation better,
  Glows still immedicably warmer. 
  Who knows of a reformed reformer?

The New Enoch.

An Average.

The Pun. >

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