Visions Of Sin
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
KRASLAJORSK, SIBERIA, March 29.
'My eyes are better, and I shall travel slowly toward home.'
DANENHOWER.
From the regions of the Night,
Coming with recovered sight
From the spell of darkness free,
What will Danenhower see?
He will see when he arrives,
Doctors taking human lives.
He will see a learned judge
Whose decision will not budge
Till both litigants are fleeced
And his palm is duly greased.
Lawyers he will see who fight
Day by day and night by night;
Never both upon a side,
Though their fees they still divide.
Preachers he will see who teach
That it is divine to preach
That they fan a sacred fire
And are worthy of their hire.
He will see a trusted wife
(Pride of some good husband's life)
Enter at a certain door
And-but he will see no more.
He will see Good Templars reel
See a prosecutor steal,
And a father beat his child.
He'll perhaps see Oscar Wilde.
From the regions of the Night
Coming with recovered sight
From the bliss of blindness free,
That's what Danenhower'll see.
1882.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 974 |
Words | 184 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 4, 15, 7, 4 |
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