Ambrose Bierce

Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell
She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell
And w...

As sweet as the look of a
Saluting the eyes of a
That blossom to blue as the
Is ablush to the glances above her,

What
"Out of danger
" Can the slighted
Or canting Pharisee no more defame

Megaceph, chosen to serve the
In the halls of legislative debate,
One day with his credentials
To the capitol's door and announced his name

Judge Sawyer, whom in vain the people
To push from power, here is laid aside
Death only from the bench could ever
The sluggish load of his immortal part

I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo
The godly multitudes walked to and
Beneath, in Sabbath garments fitly clad,
With pious mien, appropriately sad,

Thy flesh to earth, thy soul to God,  We gave,
O gallant brother;
And o'er thy grave the awkward squad  Fired into one another
An inept political general,