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1842–1914

A BIT OF SCIENCE.

Ambrose Bierce

What! photograph in colors?‘ Tis a dream And he who dreams it is not overwise, If colors are vibration they but seem, And have no being. But if Tyndall lies,

Why, come, then — photograph my lady's eyes. Nay, friend, you can n't; the splendor of their blue, As on my own beclouded orbs they rest, To naught but vibratory motion's due,

As heart, head, limbs and all I am attest. How could her eyes, at rest themselves, be making In me so uncontrollable a shaking?

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