Weather

Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)



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 seldome 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.'

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABBCCDDEE
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 611
Words 113
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. more…

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