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1842–1914

A WATER-PIRATE

Ambrose Bierce

Pause, stranger — whence you lightly tread Bill Carr's immoral part has fled. For him no heart of woman burned, But all the rivers’ heads he turned.

Alas! he now lifts up his eyes In torment and for water cries, Entreating that he may procure One drop to cool his parched McClure!

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