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1842–1914

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Ambrose Bierce

In Congress once great Mowther shone, Debating weighty matters; Now into an asylum thrown, He vacuously chatters.

If in that legislative hall His wisdom still he‘ d vented, It never had been known at all That Mowther was demented.

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